Black Man Arrested For Shooting Five-Year-Old White Boy "For Riding Into Neighbor's Yard"

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StudentMI said:
If the races were reversed no one would object. What’s good for the goose…
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No, I object to raise baiting. Your speculation changes nothing.

If the article head was race-baiting, copying it here is just as bad. We can’t blame our misdeeds on others. Repeating a wrong is just as wrong.
 
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Apparently accurately reporting the facts is now considered race-baiting.
 
WingedHussar said:
Apparently accurately reporting the facts is now considered race-baiting.
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In newspaper ethics, inserting race in a story which has nothing to do with race, particularly in a headline, is race-baiting and an ethical violation. That makes sense.

Apparently the media outlet from where the news item is copied, is unaware of this fact.
 
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So if a white man shot a black guy it would be race baiting to report it as such in the headline?
 
StudentMI said:
So if a white man shot a black guy it would be race baiting to report it as such in the headline?
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Not every time there are two races in a situation is it a racial incident – most folks can understand that. Save your rhetorical questions.
 
Nepperhan said:
Not every time there are two races in a situation is it a racial incident – most folks can understand that. Save your rhetorical questions.
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No rhetorical questions on my end.

Is it race baiting to report the race of a victim of a police shooting?
 
I really dislike the current trend of prefixing every reference to a person with their race. Sometimes it is relevant, mostly it isn’t.
 
redbetta said:
People have started a hashtag over the lack of coverage for this case:
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I saw this posted this morning.

Unfortunately, with the way Trending works, what one sees as trending can depend on their geography (real or selected) and what other people that a person follows. Trending becomes a somewhat localized concept. When this was said to be trending, I took a screenshot of my trending stories, which were entirely different.

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Nepperhan said:
Apparently the media outlet from where the news item is copied, is unaware of this fact.
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I’m curious as to why they labeled the motivation for the death the boy riding into the yard. There hasn’t been any information provided to support that. That part looks like unfounded speculation. If there is evidence to support it then it wasn’t provided.
 
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Unfortunately that is the case with much reporting. Then again we get fed the idea that racism is only racism when there’s a system of power behind it.
 
WingedHussar said:
It is only a racial incident when it fits the leftist narrative. Gotcha.
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From “Statement of Journalistic Ethics”:

"Identify a person or group by race only when such identification is relevant or is an essential element of the story; introduce race to a story only when it is an issue of relevance to the story…

In police stories – where the issue of racial identification typically arises most often – the race of either a criminal suspect or a victim generally is immaterial and should not be included. A possible exception is when there is substantial reason to believe that a crime is racially motivated. When race is a central issue of the story, racial identifications should be used only when they are important to the readers’ understanding of what has happened and why it has happened. In all cases, you should avoid reporting that needlessly stigmatizes any group or that could needlessly increase racial tension."

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Statement of Journalistic Ethics

RACE Identify a person or group by race only when such identification is relevant or is an essential element of the story; introduce race to a story only when it is an issue of relevance to the sto…
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Yes, you get it.
 
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Ah yes, we saw those “Journalistic Ethics” at play when the press reported on the Michael Brown shooting.
 
The press does not hold themselves to that standard, so I do not see why anyone else should adhere to it.
 
Honest reporting would include all the known facts and let the reader decide which are the relevant ones. Those who would deny us information fancy themselves our masters. They are the enemy of the people.
 
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