The MSM reports the Chris Lane Murder, on its Terms

Yes­ter­day after­noon I was lis­ten­ing to the live stream of Rush on WABC and was sur­prised to hear ABC News at the top of the hour talk about the Chris Lane Murder.

It seemed atyp­i­cal. After all usu­ally when a group of black men kill a white per­son that is con­sid­ered a local story. Such news might have trac­tion in the city or state where it takes place in but cer­tainly not beyond as the MSM con­sid­ers it racist to talk about such things.

Of course even that might be more cov­er­age than the story would get if Chris Lane was Black. Such a mur­der wouldn’t have received local TV cov­er­age let alone national. Lane would have been just another sta­tis­tic in the plague of black on black vio­lence that the media & the Al Sharp­tons therein ignore.

So why has this story bro­ken out beyond the local press?

Well because the Mr. Lane was Aus­tralian and the Aus­tralian press for all its faults is not about to ignore the mur­der of an Aus­tralian Ball player on Amer­i­can soil, par­tic­u­larly when the media reports he died to relieve his killers boredom.

Times have changed. If this was 20 years ago the Aus­tralian press not with­stand­ing the MSM might still have been able to ignore this story, but in ago of Drudge it can’t be done.

So ABC radio did their piece on the mur­der how­ever there was no men­tion of race in their piece

Oddly enough ABC Radio just men­tioned the story, some­how the race of the killers and the vic­tim didn’t come up. @ellymarie3

— Peter Ingemi (@DaTechGuyblog) August 20, 2013

or in this AP story (empha­sis mine):

Pros­e­cu­tor Jason Hicks called the boys “thugs” as he described how Christo­pher Lane, 22, of Mel­bourne, was shot once in the back and died along a tree-​lined road on Duncan’s well-​to-​do north side. He said the three teens, from the grit­tier part of town, chose Lane at ran­dom and that one of the boys “thinks it’s all a joke.”

Despite the frenzy of the George Zim­mer­man /​Travon Mar­tin case of just 30 days ago nowhere in the AP/​CBS story will you see the words “White” or “Black” and while twitchy is ask­ing the obvi­ous question

“We were bored & decided to kill some­body.” 3 black teens shoot white jogger.Who will POTUS iden­tify w/​this time? http://t.co/ovs9Xw23Ye

— Allen West (@AllenWest) August 20, 2013

along with bloggers

@DaTechGuyblog If 3 white boys shot a black boy in the back for “kicks” — @TheRevAl’s big head would explode!

— Donna Cahill (@DTCahill) August 21, 2013

and while PJ Media is ask­ing rel­e­vant ques­tions on cul­ture, gangs:

Google “blue ban­dana gang” and you’ll get thou­sands of hits. Light blue ban­danas are typ­i­cally asso­ci­ated with the Crips gang and its off­shoots. The Crips are active in Okla­homa — four Crips were indicted on drug traf­fick­ing charges in Tulsa in June of this year.

Many are already blam­ing the gun that the teens allegedly used to kill Chris Lane, includ­ing mem­bers of the Aus­tralian gov­ern­ment. Guns are inan­i­mate objects.

The “gun cul­ture” didn’t kill Chris Lane, but the rap and gang cul­ture may have played a promi­nent role.

and money:

Here is one of sev­eral pho­tos of wads of cash on Edwards’ Face­book page. Where does a “bored” 15 year old get this kind of money?

none of these are going to be dis­cussed, the MSM has decided on its meme

When an inno­cent Aus­tralian stu­dent is shot dead in Okla­homa for ‘fun’ — America’s gun cri­sis becomes the world’s problem.

— Piers Mor­gan (@piersmorgan) August 21, 2013

and where the MSM leads their acolytes will follow.

@DaTechGuyblog Bored teens do graf­fiti. Excuses like yours about #guns just ignore the issue of hand­guns as core prob­lem. #Fuck­theNRA — Betsy (@BetsyinCalico) August 20, 2013

If the MSM media has to cover the Chris Hunt mur­der it’s going to be the story of guns in America…

The indis­crim­i­nate shoot­ing of Christo­pher Lane, a 23-​year-​old Aus­tralian who was liv­ing his dream of study­ing in the U.S. on a base­ball schol­ar­ship, has repulsed many in his home coun­try and led to calls for Aus­tralian tourists to boy­cott the United States.

“It is another exam­ple of mur­der may­hem on Main Street,” for­mer Aus­tralian deputy Prime Min­is­ter Tim Fis­cher told CNN’s Piers Morgan.

“Peo­ple think­ing of going to the USA for busi­ness or tourists trips should think care­fully about it given the sta­tis­ti­cal fact you are 15 times more likely to be shot dead in the USA than in Aus­tralia per capita per mil­lion people.”

…not race, not gangs and not any­thing else. If Amer­i­can racism can’t be blamed Amer­ica itself will be.

And that’s a story the MSM will be happy to run with.

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As the photo above shows, gang mem­ber­ship pays a lot bet­ter than con­ser­v­a­tive media.

Three of those bills from that stack would fill my weekly pay­check cur­rently stand­ing at $39 of the $305 needed to keep the mort­gage moving.

Can this change? Well that’s up to you, Please con­sider hit­ting DaTip­Jar below and prove that while con­ser­v­a­tive blog­ging will never pay what gang activ­ity does it can gen­er­ate a pay­check to keep the mort­gage paid.

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