I've checked all the main stream online media outlets: NBC News/MSNBC, ABC News, CBS News, CNN, Fox News Channel, the Washington Post, Reuters, the Associated Press, and the New York Times. Excepting the Washington Post, all these media outlets are prominently identifying the shooter as a student from South Korea.
I don't frankly understand. Their own stories reveal the shooter as being a "resident alien," that is, he made his home in the United States ... in Centreville, Virginia, actually.
Yet, their banner headlines and first-line story bodies identify the suspect as someone from South Korea.
What relevance does this have?
What about his home in Centreville, Virginia?
Does their haste reveal hidden/subconscious prejudices?
Intelligent answers welcomed. Thanks in advance.
2007-04-17 04:35:17 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
The shooter's nationality may have no particular relevance to the shooting; it probably doesn't, though we don't know much yet.
But it would also be misleading to omit all mention of culture and nationality in news coverage. We don't know what might be important.
If anything, the US population is prejudiced in favor of Asians, not against: the stereotypes show a smart, ambitious, conventional Asian, less violent than other groups. If anything, people were shocked that an Asian would do such a thing. Most mass murderers in the US are white, nobody will deny that.
And in view of the powerful cultural dynamics in the world today, I think we will be wise not to deny what we see, but to learn more.
I have to admit that I really enjoy having a lot of different nationalities around, for all the inconveniences it can sometimes cause....
2007-04-17 04:51:35 · answer #1 · answered by The First Dragon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
definite, i'm very upset with the media. i ultimately grew to change into off my television. they favor to bare the call of the useless formerly their households are notified. they in basic terms favor to point blame and reason extra issues fairly via interviewing students even as they must be left on my own to attend to this tragedy. it truly is a shame the way the police chief and president of the faculty were dealt with contained in the click conferences. techniques would take delivery of on the right time.
2016-12-04 04:41:05 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hell Yeah....what would grab your attention more and get you politically vamped...knowing that someone who was once again let into this country to terrorize it right in our own backyard...they have shown politicians addressing this issue...there is a connection involved with politics and media and how it is relayed to the public...simply put we need to worry about South Korea....we need to worrry about gun control...we need to worry about safety....these will all connect our thoughts South Korean immagrant + guns + unsafe + murder = fear....
2007-04-17 04:42:59 · answer #3 · answered by ThunderCats 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The media has always been a part of the problem and not the solution.
Stir up racial anger and hatred and their ratings get boosted, especially if you are Fox news...LOL.
2007-04-17 07:41:13 · answer #4 · answered by cowboysfan19721972 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It falls back on everyone wanting to be called by their so-called motherland.. i.e. African-American, Asian-American and so on. Had they just said a man from VA someone would had complained that he was not given his rights.
2007-04-17 04:53:12 · answer #5 · answered by Boomrat 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋