When three Duke University lacrosse players were charged by the school with raping a hired stripper at a late-night party, this accusation – eventually dropped because it was false – was massively reported in all media.
The three young men, now exonerated, are white. She is black.
Was there any U.S. media at all that failed to report the actual 1998 murder of a black man named James Bryd, by three white Texans, who chained him to the back of a pickup truck and dragged him to his death?
No known daily newspaper, radio or TV station in the U.S. failed to report this interracial atrocity, for which the perpetrators were tried and convicted.
Then, in January of this year, reported syndicated columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. of the Miami Herald, in the Baltimore Sun on June 3rd:
“A young white couple, Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom , were victims of a brutal crime. They were carjacked kidnapped and raped. Cleaning fluid was sprayed into Ms. Christian’s mouth. She was stuffed in a trash can and apparently suffocated. Mr. Newsom was shot and set afire. His body was dumped. Five blacks, one a woman, have been arrested.”
Columnist Pitts’ account is accurate – as far as it goes. But he did not report that the four men who forced Channon to watch as they anally raped her boyfriend – and later raped her – for days – are now in jail. They are charged with 45 felony counts, including first-degree murder, robbery, rape, kidnapping and theft. The one woman with them was indicted on charges of carjacking.
From John North, Sunday editor of the Knoxville News-Sentinel, I learned that reports of Newsom and Christian having parts of their bodies cut off, and her body set fire after being cut apart, are not reliable. Her body was found in trash bags.
North also told me he had learned that in early June, CNN is scheduled to report on this case, as is Fox News and NBC.
But why haven’t they done so earlier since this interracial atrocity took place in January?
This case has been reported extensively, by WorldNetDaily, Cybercast News Service, National Review magazine and the Associated Press.
But why has this undeniable news been censored by both the New York Times and the Washington Post, along with so much of the rest of the Old Big Media?
As columnist Pitts wrote:
“The story made headlines around Knoxville. It was unnoticed nationally.”
Yet this 2004 Pulitzer Prize recipient opened his column about this with the following:
“It always amazes me when white people put on the victim hat. As in victim of racial oppression. By any measure – health, education, economics, employment – white Americans enjoy a superior standard of living. If that’s racial oppression, sign me up.” (What does the Columbia School of Journalism, which awards Pulitzers, think of that paragraph as the opening of a column about four blacks carjacking, gang raping, torturing and murdering two whites?)
“But still, one occasionally hears mewling noises from that subset of my white countrymen who feel put upon by big bad racial minorities. This is one of those times.” (This gang rape torture and murder is the subject of this column – and those four so-indicted are here described as “big bad racial minorities.” Is that supposed to be clever?)
“A constellation of white supremacists and conservative bloggers has pushed the story into the national limelight. … Bloggers such as Michael Oliver have chastised the ‘liberal, biased mainstream media’ for missing the Knoxville story. He asked: ‘Had the roles been reversed, would the media ignore such a horrific crime?’ Truth is, media ignore horrific crimes all the time. Space is limited and growing more so.” (To the question: “Had the roles been reversed would the media ignore?” Pulitzer Prizer Pitts responds: “Space is limited.”)
“I’m obligated, because I’m black, to say that if the defendants in this case did what they are accused of doing, I’d be happy to see them rot under the jailhouse. Sadly, that needs saying because there are people who will not take it as a given.” (Were you Hispanic, Oriental, American Indian, Eskimo, or white you would not be obligated – no, but “because I’m black.”)
“But with that obligation fulfilled, let me add that I am likewise unkindly disposed towards the crackpots, incendiaries and flat-out racists who have chosen this tragedy upon which to take an obscene ludicrous stand. I have four words for them and any other white Americans who feel themselves similarly victimized: Cry me a river.” (Such incredibly racist rhetoric hardly suggests a river rather than what is widely euphemized as “the well-known tributary”.)
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