Misplaced Priorities

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/22/05 at 7:02pm

Something is really wrong when the front page of 2 NY dailys involves a botched scratch off game in 1 local paper & a new stadium while the Minnesota school massacre was on page 4 & 5 respectively

What happen there is a tad more important than some people crying in their beer they did not win a few bucks. My heart goes out to those families who lost a loved one

[DAME]

Posted: 3/22/05 at 7:03pm

Mine does too. I could only guess what papers these were.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/22/05 at 7:08pm

NY Daily News (who botched the scratch off game) & NY Post who once had the now infamous headline "Headless Body Found In Topless Bar"

[Plum]

Posted: 3/22/05 at 7:09pm

Dude, they're tabloids. Expecting them to act like respectable journalistic institutions is like expecting Michael Jackson to act like a respectable human being.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/22/05 at 7:10pm

True true - Point well taken

[kjklo]

Posted: 3/22/05 at 7:37pm

Naturally it wasn't on the front page. It happened on an Indian reservation school in northern Minnesota, and not at a middle class suburban high school like Columbine. It's not just the tabloids--coverage throughout the media has been much less extensive.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/22/05 at 7:39pm

Bring race or ethnicity into this does not cut it

Whatever the reasons are, it has nothing to do with whwere it was committed. It is all about what will sell papers

[DAME]

Posted: 3/22/05 at 7:41pm

Are those two the most popular "subway" papers?

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/22/05 at 7:48pm

Yes they are

[Plum]

Posted: 3/22/05 at 7:50pm

Sadly, I think race might play into it a bit. Here's one of the first articles to pop into Google News when this happened. It's mostly a history of all the violent crime on the res in the 70s and 80s, with a little acknowledgement at the bottom that they've been turning things around since the 90s.

You see, when a kid in a nice, wholesome white suburb does this, it's a shock. When it happens on an Indian reservation? Sadly, not so much. I doubt people would pay as much attention if it was a black kid from Atlanta, either.
Star Tribune

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/22/05 at 7:51pm

"Bring race or ethnicity into this does not cut it

Whatever the reasons are, it has nothing to do with whwere it was committed. It is all about what will sell papers"

Anybody who doesn't think race or ethnicity is the reason this isn't treated with the same gravitas as Columbine is a drunk or a fool or both. Now, what could the editors who decide what story will sell to New York tabloid readers saying about the issue of race for those readers? And are they accurate?

[kjklo]

Posted: 3/22/05 at 7:54pm

I think the media may view the story as being of less general interest because of where it happened and who the victims were. Unfortunately, it's pretty obvious that all lives and all deaths aren't of equal value in the mainstream commercial press. As mentioned, it's all about what is perceived will sell more papers.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/22/05 at 7:56pm

Right. Race and ethnicity.

[Plum]

Posted: 3/22/05 at 7:56pm

Of course. Isn't it funny how all the prominent kidnapping cases are of little white (and usually blonde) girls?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/22/05 at 7:57pm

Funny sad yeah.

[papalovesmambo]

Posted: 3/22/05 at 8:02pm

i think it's just shocking that all them li'l white girls is being snatched.

[kjklo]

Posted: 3/22/05 at 8:03pm

Well, as long as we've mentioned race and ethnicity, how about that other great unmentionable category "class." That, too, plays a part in what's considereded worth covering in depth.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/22/05 at 8:06pm

Ohhhhhhhh yeah. Ohhhhhhhhhhhh yeah. Kidnapped girls named "Tanisha" are inherently less newsworthy than little kidnapped girls named "Ashley," "Amanda" or "Jennifer." Right?

When kids disappear from housing projects, it's just not as interesting than when it's from McMansions.

[Plum]

Posted: 3/22/05 at 8:07pm

Well, those depraved people kidnap and shoot each other all the time, right? Where's the news?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/22/05 at 8:11pm

Ohhhhhhhh yeah. Ohhhhhhhhhhhh yeah. Kidnapped girls named "Tanisha" are inherently less newsworthy than little kidnapped girls named "Ashley," "Amanda" or "Jennifer." Right?

When kids disappear from housing projects, it's just not as interesting than when it's from McMansions.

[CatieElphie1]

Posted: 3/22/05 at 8:28pm

it's kinda sad to think that the value of human life and the acknowldegement of the sins against it are prioritized by rich, white newspaper editors.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/22/05 at 8:30pm

All lives and stories are created equal. It's just that many are more equal than others.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 3/22/05 at 8:49pm

To The Mambo Man

You mischievious little imp

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 3/22/05 at 10:29pm

I'm sure he was agreeing with you 100% Roxy. Gosh, now that you've met some people in the flesh you've got a regular insider's club goin!

To everybody except Roxy: What did YOU think of the earring? Surprised as I was??