Murder Cover Up; Why did the media cover up the murders of two white people in Knoxville,Tn. When Imus used?

Question

the term "nappy headed ho" the media bombarded this story all over the place. The governor of NJ John Corzine was critically injured racing in an SUV to get to a meeting with the basketball team and Hillary Clinton was already there. This was over a 3 word offensive phrase. The Duke rape case also got unbelievable amounts of non-stop coverage ad infinitum. Yet when a young white couple were brutally raped and murdered in Knoxville, there was a complete and total national news media blackout. It was not undercovered, it was not covered AT ALL. Only local news picked up on this. Why did this happen? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgvmmyDpzHwhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channon_Christian_and_Christopher_Newsom_murder

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Answer 1

I wonder that myself. You have to remember that most newspapers are not after the truth but after selling papers and ratings.

Answer 2

I ask myself the same thing when a girl goes missing in Aruba or Jamaica and that gets covered nationally for days yet hundreds of children go missing closer to home and no one cares.

The problem is that everyone covers the same news, so even though technically there are a lot of channels on the dial, there really aren't. Fox might do it more right wing than CNN, but they all cover the same few stories.

Every day around 30 people are murdered and thousands of lesser crimers occur yet for some reason a few names are picked out of the hat each month because there is some compelling twist to it , and you hear about them day after day after day.

I think it is because the news has become about telling cowboy and indians stories rather than just reporting dates/names/facts. You can't create a good story if the names change every broadcast, you need to 'develop the characters'. The guy in the white hat and the guy in the black hat need to emerge and Bill O'Reilly needs to then blame it all on Hillary Clinton, and Keith Olbermann blame it all on George Bush.

They say it wouldn't be that way if it didn't get ratings.

Also, tv needs pictures. It helps if your story has lots of pictures and people willing to stand in front of the camera and be interviewed.

Fires always have a prominent role in newscasts because they are visual. If you think about a city or a countries concerns - crime, health, the economy, education, world politics, etc, etc, most fires don't matter much. Yet have a spectacular fire, particularly a night fire, and it will always be the top story.

Answer 3

I read this story, and I'm from Tennessee as well. I read it on the site "Snope's", I don't recall ever getting any wind of that story otherwise and live here....pathetic on the media's part, but Paris friggen Hilton is everywhere.....absurd!!!
What those ANIMALS did to those two young people is beyond even comprehension.....Then the Black people wonder why a lot of White people don't like them.....Had it been two Black young people and that was done by 4 White ANIMALS, it may have been all over the news so downtown L.A. didn't have another excuse to Riot!
It is a shame when disgusting people shame their race. Those four should have been shot by firing squad, no 3 hots and a cot, lawyers and health care by us tax payers...
can you actually imagine someone had to be appointed as Defense Council??? How.....the system failed those two young people, those ANIMALS? I guarantee it isn't the first time they've done something bad, I'd almost bet my life on it!
They just hadn't gotten caught for it! Sick son of a beoches....
very sad for the families of those two........very sad....

Answer 4

It was ignoring the elephant in the room. The girl's upper anatomy was sliced off, the poor mans tool was cut off, after oral performance on the girl, a substance was poured down her throat to destroy the evidence the assailant left. These things are just the tip of the ice berg what was done.

Did we hear anything about it? They crucified three white guys for an alleged rape. Why the silence in this case? Why not classify it as a Hate Crime? On and on. It's 'cause it was a crime against white people by four blacks. No ifs, ands, or buts. Its disgusting.

Answer 5

there's two answers to this question..

the first and easiest answer is the story isn't being ignored at all. i've seen it on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and 2 of the 3 local stations here in town.

the second answer is not every double murder makes national headlines. a lot of times local police and sheriff's departments don't cooperate with the media in getting information out, especially in the south.

Answer 6

You really aren't asking a fair question. Not covering a story is not the same as covering one up. It's a legitimate concern, so please keep your question honest and free of sensationalistic elements.