Christopher Donovan: What Can't The Media Spin Into a Story on 'Hate Groups'?
In Central Pennsylvania recently, a white attorney was shot and killed at a public rifle range, and his customized weapon taken. Two white men were arrested and charged, and one said he was helping an “unnamed group” that sought to overthrow the government. (See here.)
I was personally amazed that the local newspaper took a whole 24 hours before reaching out the Southern Poverty Law Center — and then didn’t even get a call back. With all their millions, you’d think they’d have a 24-hour media hotline set up for a quick quote.
The story is depressingly rote, with the reporters following the tight script of American journalism: any incident involving white men and guns is tied to the KKK, the neo-Nazis and Timothy McVeigh.
What if the media took a similar tack with blacks, Hispanics or Jews?
A black man is charged with robbing a white couple. This comes just days after the NAACP called for America to treat blacks with more fairness. Experts are convinced the two are related. ‘When you create an atmosphere of that much hate, that much intolerance, and that much grievance, things like this are bound to happen’, said the expert. “We even have a black president who said that the civil rights movement didn’t go far enough. With those kinds of messages coming from the top, whites are just sitting ducks for black violence.” …Three Hispanics entered the country illegally the other day. Meanwhile, a supremacist group called ‘La Raza‘ has been loudly agitating for amnesty for illegal aliens. Experts think there’s a connection, and the potential for violence grows every day. …Nationally, hate experts have traced the rise of Israel, a supremacist state in the Middle East, to an active network of lobbyists and fundraisers — almost all of them Jewish, and many in the United States.
Sigh. I’m not holding my breath.
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