I’d say there is hope. Your a, b, and c, are the matters that I’d like to see the citizens report on, rather than the media. Imagine that in Newark. I believe we would get somewhere then.

I like this idea. It seems like a very small paper could be created by a small group of volunteer citizens that cover just these issues from an inside perspective. There’d never be great circulation, but it seems a worthwhile idea and important. You know how the micro-loan industry has taken off? This type of project seems appropriate for such a loan.

Why shouls the media want to report black-on-black crime. The whites in the suburbs are not interested. The risk of making a misstep are large and the ratings or prestige benefits are very small.

Also, there are not the normal cues for the elite whites in the MSM to believe that this story is important. There have been no arrest. There is no Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson leading marches or conducing interviews. The is no racial angles to make the story interestng. I guess that since there is no plot element from Bonfire of the Vanities, the whites in the MSM do not know what do to.

A side question would by why four middle class blacks from Newark ended up going to Delaware St. Is the in state tuition in New Jersey so high and public university prospects so poor that four students from the same neighborhood ended up at a HBU in another state.

Anyway, my first thought was that if more news managers and editors were black and lived in Newark, they’d have covered it. If true, then we can’t blame the advertizers. It’s not their fault. At the same time, if those same news managers were white and lived on the Upper East side of Manhattan, they would still cover it, if they thought it would increase ratings or advertizing purchases. They probably don’t. For that, we can then blame advertizers and, again, news managers who might be basing news coverage on financial gain or popularity rather than “newworthiness”. But, of course, defining intrinsic “newworthiness” is no self-evident task.

Or perhaps we should blame ourselves, the people. Will this newstory be picked up by conservative talk radio as something unjustly ignored by the MSM? Probably not, as the most likely lessons from it are a) the collapse of our inner cities b) our inability to provide security within our own nation and c) pervasiveness of guns. Will it be picked up by liberal alternative newspapers to decry it as evidence of censorship by the corporations who control media access? Perhaps, but since no conservatives are clearly to blame, there’s no great push for it.

Who’s left caring? Us and their families, none of whom are publishers.

Domajot, I think, yes about pp belonging to another
class, identifying with the over-class. That was the gist of Spike Lee’s film in which two ‘classes’ of blacks clashed with one another… one seeming more to hold to the over-culture and being like ‘them’… the other group being more ‘of themselves’ ratherh than of the mainstream cultural masher.

correct Rudi. non-serious stories about serious matters. I can appreciate satire. I appreciate humor. But news that seems like prop, is really not funny, not enlightening, not useful

I still keep thinking, three young people gone, blown away… a fourth badly injured (shot in the head. Oh my my. ) and right now on CNN they are speaking of ‘Hello Kitty’…and Rudi, on Fox they’re speaking about Birgfeld. And on and on. To be fair, you cant do the same sotry, as about these four young people, all the time. What did I say. Didnt we have t-shirts made: ‘I survived a decade of OJ TV coverage.’

One aspect interests me that is seldom discussed. amd that is the segment of the audience who adopt the slant of the powerful, even when they belong to a group sold short by the pwerful. Maybe they’re indulging in wish fulfillment, like becoming attached to and living imaginary lives through a movie idol?

the issue you bring up about ‘google’ search by keyword ‘whore’ is fascinating for psychological reasons… hmmm …. I have to give this last more thought….

pacatrue; good point, and I think your inference is possibly true, just trying to think about what demographic media advertisers are wanting to munch; i think you’re right… ‘pore people’ arent going to buy a Lexus, even though they might like to. I think that’s a really good insight. It may be that your theory fits with Rudi’s… maybe the rich/scared are the Lexus targetees as per ad demos.

I am not sure about the first comment, maybe it was posted here by error, or maybe it’s code (lol, you know, I analyze dreams, so lots of things seem symbolic sometimes…lol) maybe first poster is trying to say?… media wont put this story high on the news rack cause its drug related to something the USA supports overseas? Now that would be a novel idea, wouldnt it? Ok, just Kidding.

It appears thus far that we could make a bold case for ADVERTIZERS driving the news in big media instead of newspeople. Hmmm, we ought to analyze this idea… I wonder what would be the quickest and fairest way….

Rudi? So you think we could look at all three network and all three big news cable channels and somehow list all their adverts? and then scale them by price to consumer, and then see what proportion of the demos of our country can actually afford to purchase same?

Natalie Holloway; what does that poor child’s story sell, I wonder

Just thinking out loud with you guys.
dr.e

Kharzai Brings “Latest” Opium News for Bush

Britain is protecting the biggest heroin crop of all time.
But the key question is this: what are our servicemen dying for?….Opium Wars.

Afghanistan was not militarily winnable by the British Empire at the height of its supremacy. It was not winnable by Darius or Alexander, by Shah, Tsar or Great Moghul. It could not be subdued by 240,000 Soviet troops. But what, precisely, are we trying to win?

There are a number of theories as to why Litvinenko had to flee Russia. The most popular blames his support for the theory that FSB agents planted bombs in Russian apartment blocks to stir up anti-Chechen feeling.

But the truth is that his discoveries about the heroin trade were what put his life in danger. Litvinenko was working for the KGB in St Petersburg in 2001 and 2002. He became concerned at the vast amounts of heroin coming from Afghanistan, in particular from the fiefdom of the (now) Head of the Afghan armed forces, General Abdul Rashid Dostum, in north and east Afghanistan.

Dostum is an Uzbek, and the heroin passes over the Friendship Bridge from Afghanistan to Uzbekistan, where it is taken over by President Islam Karimov’s people. It is then shipped up the railway line, in bales of cotton, to St Petersburg and Riga.

The heroin Jeeps run from General Dostum to President Karimov. The UK, United States and Germany have all invested large sums in donating the most sophisticated detection and screening equipment to the Uzbek customs centre at Termez to stop the heroin coming through.

But the convoys of Jeeps running between Dostum and Karimov are simply waved around the side of the facility.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=469983&in_page_id=1770