[quote=The Nexerus]
But of course, the above only qualifies to the situations you mentioned that, if proven, WOULD be institutionalized racism. Media outlets putting emphasis on shootings that happen in schools where it normal for students to get shot to death makes absolute perfect sense. It's the same reasoning behind it being more newsworthy when a bomb goes off in down-town Washington D.C., to give a random example, as compared to down-town Baghdad. News is something newsworthy—something extraordinary and out of the norm.
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I'm sorry to say this but: you are a really piece of work aren't you? How is a shooting in a place where "shooting is normal" (I'm assuming you mean places with a lot of black people) un newsworthy? For gods sake ITS A SHOOTING, things like that deserve attention even if it is in poor socio-economic, heavily populated with black people, and not a rich middle class white populated area, if we do not see the problem, thanks to the media not showing us, then how are we going to fix it?