{"id":131610,"date":"2020-07-16T11:36:40","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T15:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=131610"},"modified":"2020-07-16T11:36:40","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T17:58:58","slug":"how-the-mainstream-media-is-fueling-a-race-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/how-the-mainstream-media-is-fueling-a-race-war\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Mainstream Media is Fueling A Race War"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"621\" title=\"How the Mainstream Media is Fueling A Race War\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/LemonGunOwners-1024x621.png\" alt=\"How the Mainstream Media is Fueling A Race War\" class=\"wp-image-127738\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/LemonGunOwners-1024x621.png 1024w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/LemonGunOwners-400x243.png 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/LemonGunOwners-150x91.png 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/LemonGunOwners-768x466.png 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/LemonGunOwners.png 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>CNN&#8221;s Don Lemon and Chris Cuomo.  (<em>Photo: CNN<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Editor&#8217;s note:<\/strong> <em>This article was originally published by Real Clear Politics with the title, &#8220;<a aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2020\/07\/08\/selective_media_reporting_further_fuels_our_racial_divide_143649.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"how-the-mainstream-media-is-fueling-a-race-war\" title=\"How the Mainstream Media is Fueling A Race War\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Selective Media Reporting Further Fuels Our Racial Divide<\/a>.&#8221;  It is being syndicated by GunsAmerica with the permission of its author, Dr. John Lott Jr.  <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Saturday, a man drove his car onto a Seattle freeway that had been closed by a Black Lives Matter crowd. The driver killed one person and seriously injured another after going the wrong way up a ramp and then around a barricade. Reports noted that police \u201cdon\u2019t believe impairment was a factor.\u201d Over the weekend, news outlets replayed the brutal hit, but there\u2019s one thing you won\u2019t learn from their coverage: The driver was black and his victims were white.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NPR linked this attack to other car-ramming incidents by \u201cright-wing extremists targeting Black Lives Matter protesters.\u201d They quote a researcher about how these right-wingers were \u201ctrying to intimidate the most recent wave of BLM protesters, to stop their movement.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The driver was a Seattle local named Dawit Kelete.&nbsp;But you\u2019ll find scant mention of the driver\u2019s ethnicity in mainstream media coverage. You might have more easily learned that Kelete was black by going to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2020-07-05\/black-lives-matter-protesters-injured-by-car-on-seattle-highway\/12423502?fbclid=IwAR1Exx0tl2ENm9C8BkARfZrbNarkmHqz2QVcRNP3uE5lea4N3aCU2Z0iOJU\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"how-the-mainstream-media-is-fueling-a-race-war\" title=\"How the Mainstream Media is Fueling A Race War\">Australia Broadcasting Corporation<\/a>. The American national media also doesn\u2019t note that Kelete\u2019s two victims were white. You can find that out over at the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8490745\/PICTURED-Seattle-protesters-condition-hit-car.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"how-the-mainstream-media-is-fueling-a-race-war\" title=\"How the Mainstream Media is Fueling A Race War\">U.K.\u2019s Daily Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the few U.S. outlets to mention the race of the driver is&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/news\/2020\/07\/dawit-kelete\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"how-the-mainstream-media-is-fueling-a-race-war\" title=\"How the Mainstream Media is Fueling A Race War\">Heavy.com<\/a>. The rest of the news media seemingly would rather just have people assume that a white driver attacked two black protesters. Acknowledging the driver\u2019s and victims\u2019 ethnicity wouldn\u2019t advance their narrative of oppression, so it apparently isn\u2019t newsworthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One case doesn\u2019t prove a pattern. It could just be that while the American media knows almost everything about this killer, including his name, age, and where he lives, they couldn\u2019t find information on his race. Possibly the foreign news outlets were just lucky to discover that information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, the media outlets might honestly not view race as essential to the story. But their selective reporting of it shows that they think race is important when it involves certain races. The problem is that it gives readers a biased perspective, inflaming prejudice and creating stereotypes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2870189\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"how-the-mainstream-media-is-fueling-a-race-war\" title=\"How the Mainstream Media is Fueling A Race War\">Research<\/a>\u00a0conducted by the Crime Prevention Research Center, of which I am president, on all police shootings from 2013 to 2015 found that while local news coverage will often mention the race of the officer and the suspect, the national coverage is much more selective. While the evidence indicates that black officers are no less likely to shoot suspects than white officers, local news coverage of black officers shooting black suspects gets picked up by the national news in just 9% of cases. By contrast, 38% of the cases in which local news reported on a white officer shooting a black suspect get national coverage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SEE ALSO: <a aria-label=\"undefined (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/murderer-of-11-year-old-was-released-from-jail-due-to-covid-19-concerns\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"how-the-mainstream-media-is-fueling-a-race-war\" title=\"How the Mainstream Media is Fueling A Race War\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Murderer of 11-Year-Old was Released from Jail Due to COVID-19 Concerns<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Tucker Carlson rips CNN\u2019s Don Lemon:<br \/><br \/>\u201cIf you\u2019re running a channel like CNN, you want dumb people on TV because they\u2019re compliant. They\u2019ll say what they\u2019re told.\u201d<br \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZDTMcYl7yV\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"how-the-mainstream-media-is-fueling-a-race-war\" title=\"How the Mainstream Media is Fueling A Race War\">pic.twitter.com\/ZDTMcYl7yV<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DailyCaller\/status\/1281046777043574786?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"how-the-mainstream-media-is-fueling-a-race-war\" title=\"How the Mainstream Media is Fueling A Race War\">July 9, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote> \n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The selective coverage creates the belief that white officers are the problem &#8212; they are the ones shooting blacks, presumably because white officers treat black suspects differently than white ones. Watching the news, you would never guess that the research found that black officers were just as likely as white officers to shoot an unarmed black suspect.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The media&#8217;s selective coverage has done real harm. It has heightened racial divides and sown distrust of the police in the communities that need them most. Now, with police sidelined and facing &#8220;defunding,&#8221; gun violence is rising fast in major cities around the country.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The media similarly seems intent on claiming that mass public shooters are disproportionately white and right-wing, when nothing could be further from the truth. While&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/crimeresearch.org\/2019\/07\/breaking-down-mass-public-shooting-data-from-1998-though-june-2019-info-on-weapons-used-gun-free-zones-racial-age-and-gender-demographics\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"how-the-mainstream-media-is-fueling-a-race-war\" title=\"How the Mainstream Media is Fueling A Race War\">58% of the mass public shooters from 1998 to 2019<\/a>&nbsp;were white (excluding people of Middle Eastern descent), about 75% of the total U.S. population was white. Middle Eastern Arabs made up just 1% of the population, but accounted for 8% of shooters. Of all the mass killers,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/crimeresearch.org\/2018\/10\/few-mass-public-shooters-have-obvious-political-or-religious-reasons-for-doing-their-shootings\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"how-the-mainstream-media-is-fueling-a-race-war\" title=\"How the Mainstream Media is Fueling A Race War\">72%<\/a>&nbsp; have no known political affiliation or views \u2013 only 3% are known to be conservative or Republican.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Race and politics increasingly divide Americans, and selective media reporting is largely to blame. The media, not Trump, is fanning the flames of violence. The destruction and the long-term harm that is being done to heavily minority parts of our cities is their responsibility.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">***<a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/\" campaign=\"BuySellGA_Register\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\">Buy and Sell on GunsAmerica!<\/a>***<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By contrast, 38% of the cases in which local news reported on a white officer shooting a black suspect get national 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