A 22 year old gang member was shot and killed in my hometown: suburban Oak Park, just a few blocks from Austin Ave, the dividing line between the middle to upper class suburb with a white demographic of almost 60%, in which i live, and the gang-infested, impoverished inner-city Austin neighborhood of Chicago, with a white demographic of approximately 4%. When this happened, the local news stations were all over it. Tomorrow it will be on the front page of the Chicago Tribune. But just days before that happened, two kids who went to my high school, OPRF (Oak Park River Forest), were shot, and one of them nearly died, just a few blocks east of the dividing line. The only place in the news this story appeared in was the back corner of our community newspaper (Wednesday Journal). My question is, how is it okay for a news corporation to pay more attention to certain crimes just because they occur in less diverse neighborhoods? Shouldn't the front page focus on Austin's struggle...
2007-09-12 18:00:18 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
.....on Austin's ongoing struggle with crime, instead of just an isolated event in an affluent suburb? How is this fair?
2007-09-12 18:01:28 · update #1
It's ridiculous isn't it? Most likely because the less diverse place made an uproar of the crime.
2007-09-12 18:03:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
ALL news is biased and the sooner the news sources admit it the more logical our society will become!
It is impossible to report anything without SOME degree of bias, even if you try to be un-biased.
It may be impossible to get the whole story so that view will not be reported. If you do get the whole story, it will be so long you will have to dropout some data deliberately and THAT will bias the story.
Every news report and editorial report or documentary movie should have a disclaimer stating it is biased due to either uncontrollable circumstances or deliberate editing of the facts and everyone receiving the report should consider as many sources as possible and NEVER conclude they have an accurate picture of the events.
2007-09-12 18:34:55 · answer #2 · answered by Philip H 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When the news focuses on crime in "more diverse" neighborhoods they are accused of "picking on the minorities" and stereotyping people.
2007-09-12 18:24:10 · answer #3 · answered by Sheriff of Yahoo! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as crappy as it sounds, their most likely putting the spotlight on certain stories that are applicable to their target market paper readers.
2007-09-19 07:00:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋