Wed, Jul 27, 2022 1:42 p.m.
too many blacks were seen in arrest mugshots -- and giving the public the right impression, so........
.........our local newspaper stopped showing the mugshots.
https://www.wral.com/wral-news-changing-policy-on-arrest-photo-galleries/19010373/
March 13, 2020 5:15 p.m. EDT
wral news changing policy on arrest photo galleries
wral news has decided to stop publication of arrest photo galleries on wral.com effective Monday, March 16. In its place, wral.com will offer maps that plot reported crimes and arrests for much of the wral viewing area.
The so-called "mugshot" galleries were launched more than a decade ago. A 2016 survey of newspapers found that 40 percent of those surveyed were running arrest photos similar to the wral.com galleries.
in recent years, however, many observers have begun to question the value of these photos for either reinforcing or creating stereotypes.
[N.S.: English translation: in recent years, however, black supremacists and their White allies, who support black criminals, especially violent ones, have raged against all honest crime reporting, and demanded that such reporting be ended.]
The wral.com photos are generated by automated data feeds supplied by county jails. with this change, wral will join media companies such as scripps and the houston chronicle in removing mugshot galleries. While wral.com will no longer publish galleries of arrest photos, the website and tv station will continue to use arrest photos in news coverage, especially when police are searching for a suspect deemed to be dangerous or when authorities may be trying to find additional crime victims
Merlin: These leftist media sites can try to alter or obfuscate reality but most people can see right through it.
N.S.: Unless a suspect has a spanish or arab name, the safest bet is to assume they are all black, and to assume that all alleged reporters (and professors) are liars.
Here in GR,the Sheriff’s Dept.stopped publishing the mugshots,about 5 years ago--can you imagine that?
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"These leftist media sites can try to alter or obfuscate reality but most people can see right through it."
ReplyDeleteSho' nuff' now. The whitey is not so dumb as the media elites believe. Don't how the mug shot you are showing it to us. Thank you media.
Yep, media companies around the country have been doing this for years and years. They've done it in the Bay Area since at least the 1980s. It may seem harmless, but it's really very insidious, and has undoubtedly led to the victimization of many innocent and well-meaning white people.
ReplyDeleteI used to go to San Francisco's Japantown a lot in the 80s. I'd always make a point of checking out the community bulletin board outside the supermarket. One corner of the bulletin board was set aside for handmade reports on local crime.
There were at least two or three robberies in the immediate area every month. Sometimes more. Nearly all the victims were elderly people, walking alone. In every single case, going back a year or more, the robbers were described as black males. I was young and naive, and I remember feeling a little indignant. My inner dialogue was some version of "Hey, that's kind of racist! Do you have to keep writing 'black male' so much? Was it really a black guy every single time??"
The issue, you see, is that nearly all Bay Area media had been censoring race out of their crime reporting for years. Unless they were white (of course), the offenders were always described as "a man" or "men", and only a cursory description was given that was generally useless. You only formed a vague image of some raceless, generic bad guy. Coupling this targeted censorship with the constant liberal indoctrination you were inevitably subjected to through entertainment, school, and the people around you (I had fairly liberal parents), and living as I did in a white suburb, my thought process simply didn't contain the fact of the heavy predominance of blacks in serious and violent crime. You really do only know, what you know.
Fortunately, I've learned a lot since those days.
(Hi. If you decide to publish my comment, could you use this version? I made a minor error in the first one. Thank you, and thank you for what you do.)
ReplyDeleteYep, media companies around the country have been doing this for years and years. They've done it in the Bay Area since at least the 1980s. It may seem harmless, but it's really very insidious, and has undoubtedly led to the victimization of many innocent and well-meaning white people.
I used to go to San Francisco's Japantown a lot in the 80s. I'd always make a point of checking out the community bulletin board they had in the supermarket entrance. One corner of the bulletin board was set aside for handmade reports on local crime.
There were at least two or three robberies in the immediate area every month. Sometimes more. Nearly all the victims were elderly people, walking alone. In every single case, going back a year or more, the robbers were described as black males. I was young and naive, and I remember feeling a little indignant. My inner dialogue was some version of "Hey, that's kind of racist! Do you have to keep writing 'black male' so much? Was it really a black guy every single time??"
The issue, you see, is that nearly all Bay Area media had been censoring race out of their crime reporting for years. Unless they were white (of course), the offenders were always described as "a man" or "men", and only a cursory description was given that was generally useless. You only formed a vague image of some raceless, generic bad guy. Coupling this targeted censorship with the constant liberal indoctrination you were inevitably subjected to through entertainment, school, and the people around you (I had fairly liberal parents), and living as I did in a white suburb, my thought process simply didn't contain the fact of the heavy predominance of blacks in serious and violent crime. You really do only know, what you know.
Fortunately, I've learned a lot since those days.
AT THE "MLK SHOOTING RANGE"--I MEAN--PARK,THREE bLACKS SHOT,AS WOOD TV CREW NEARBY,HEARS GUNFIRE
ReplyDeleteGRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Three people were shot near a Park in Southeast Grand Rapids Wednesday, police say.
It happened around 7:30 p.m., in the area of Alexander Street SE and Benjamin Avenue SE near Martin Luther King Park, the Grand Rapids Police Department told News 8.
News 8 employees heard several shots while at the MLK Park pool. When police arrived on scene, pool employees told everyone on scene to go into the locker rooms.
(GRA:"I ain't gettin' out of da pool--that's only a semi-automatic.")
Most people left and the pool closed early.
(GRA:"DAMN,Someone stole my gun I left next to da pool.")
Soon after that, three people showed up at a local hospital with gunshot wounds, GRPD said. Police say all three have injuries that are not considered life-threatening.
There are no suspects at this time, officers say.
(GRA:And there never will be.)
--GRA
jerry pdx
ReplyDeleteThe use of the word "stereotype" is so deceptive on this subject. If blacks commit more crime, then it's not stereotyping when their photos reveal that as a factual reality.
Refusing to post photos, which out local media is now doing, leaves it to your imagination but the names and types of crimes usually tell us anyways. On occasion we jump the gun and make a mistake but since we're right 90% or so, of the time, I think that's acceptable.
LIBEL SUITS BY NICK SANDMANN AGAINST THE MSM ARE DISMISSED BY A JUDGE;"OPINIONS ARE PROTECTED."
ReplyDeleteGRA:The media,therefore can say anything they want,incite,lie,distort the so called "news"--with no fear of monetary punishment--according to this judge.In reality,they aren't supposed to give opinions,unless it's a declared editorial.
(ZH)Libel lawsuits brought by Nick Sandmann against a string of media outlets were dismissed by a U.S. District Court in Eastern Kentucky this week, which ruled that statements that he “blocked” a Native American man were “protected opinions.”
Sandmann filed lawsuits against ABC, CBS, CNN, Gannett, NBC, The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and The Washington Post in 2019 after an incident at a March for Life protest at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
The then-16-year-old Covington Catholic student was seen on camera wearing a MAGA (Make America Great Again) hat and standing opposite Nathan Phillips, a Native American, who was banging a drum while participating in an Indigenous Peoples March.
Sandmann was seen smiling at Phillips and it was alleged at the time that the teenager had harassed 64-year-old Philips.
Lawyers for the then-teenager argued that the news outlets’ publications of statements from Phillips claiming that the teen had “stood in his way and blocked” him were false and amounted to defamation.
The lawsuits that were dismissed by federal judge William Bertelsman on Wednesday pertaining to The New York Times, CBS, ABC, Gannett, and Rolling Stone.
“The media defendants were covering a matter of great public interest, and they reported Phillips’s first-person view of what he experienced. This would put the reader on notice that Phillips was simply giving his perspective on the incident. Therefore, in the factual context of this case, Phillips’s ‘blocking’ statements are protected opinions. This holding moots all other motions before the Court,” Bertelsman wrote in his opinion on Wednesday.
Bertelsman also noted that Phillips’s assertions that Sandmann “blocked” him and “wouldn’t allow [him] to retreat” are “objectively unverifiable and thus unactionable opinions.”
GRA:Supposedly,it will be appealed.If the networks only reported the facts,there would be no need of lawsuits.That means giving both sides of a story--which they never did here--they all leapt on Phillips' side,basically calling Sandmann a racist.
--GRA
"On occasion we jump the gun and make a mistake but since we're right 90% or so, of the time, I think that's acceptable."
ReplyDeleteProbably greater than 90 %. And if and when we make a mistake we admit so. Not like others.
Always take the high road, not like them.
jerry pdx
ReplyDeleteI tried to find one of the original CNN articles re the Sandmann case but there are so many even trying to isolate with date ranges it was a near impossible task. It was those early articles that pretty much created the impression that stuck in the minds of most Americans, though it's the liberal ones that were reluctant to change their minds even after more info came out. Here is one that emphasizes that Sandmann did indeed "block" the "elder". Among other terrible things:
https://www.politicususa.com/2019/01/21/maga-hat-wearing-teen-who-mocked-native-american-vet-issues-bs-statement-of-white-privilege.html
Sandmann needs you on his legal team,Jerry,lol.
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I have thought it would be a good idea to have once a year the local big city newspaper to have issue that shows all the images of victims that have died by shootings.
ReplyDeleteAnd the images of all the perpetrators arrested also.
But at the same time I realize that will NEVER happen.