{"id":10156,"date":"2013-09-09T13:49:21","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T13:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10156"},"modified":"2013-09-09T13:52:36","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T13:52:36","slug":"us-media-completely-ignore-racist-rampage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10156","title":{"rendered":"US media completely ignore racist rampage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/babbitt.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10157\" alt=\"babbitt\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/babbitt.jpg\" width=\"279\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a>NewsBusters asked Saturday if the media will report a New York man becoming brain dead as a result of an unprovoked attacked by a black man saying &#8220;I hate white people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So far with the exception of local New York coverage, the answer is a resounding &#8220;No.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Analyses of Google News, LexisNexis, and closed-caption transcripts found absolutely no national reporting of Jeffrey Babbitt, the 62-year-old retired train conductor now in a coma at Bellevue Hospital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Not one word on ABC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, or NBC.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Potentially even more curious, the largest newspaper in New York, the New York Times, appears to have not reported this attack despite it occurring in its own backyard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If Babbitt were black, and his assailant shouted &#8220;I hate black people&#8221; before inflicting what appears will be a death blow, would America&#8217;s media be so disinterested?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Or would this be headline news much like what we saw with Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sadly, we all know the answer as our media have once again shown that they are only interested in white on black hate crimes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The other variety just don&#8217;t fit the agenda.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Update: It turns out the New York Times did report this matter at its website Friday and in print Saturday. Unfortunately, the name of the assailant was wrong and the article didn&#8217;t include Babbitt&#8217;s. That&#8217;s why it appeared this event had gone unreported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Readers are advised the errant report was a total of 152 words buried on page 21.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I guess that&#8217;s the importance the Times gives to black on white hate crimes. &#8211; newsbusters.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NewsBusters asked Saturday if the media will report a New York man becoming brain dead as a result of an unprovoked attacked by a black man saying &#8220;I hate white people.&#8221; So far with the exception of local New York coverage, the answer is a resounding &#8220;No.&#8221; Analyses of Google News, LexisNexis, and closed-caption transcripts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=10156\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;US media completely ignore racist rampage&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[6015,6016,1102,501,5980,989,6017,6014,324],"class_list":["post-10156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-abc","tag-cbs","tag-cnn","tag-hate-crime","tag-jeffrey-babbitt","tag-msnbc","tag-nbc","tag-racist-rampage","tag-trayvon-martin"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/babbitt.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10156"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10161,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10156\/revisions\/10161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}