Former BJ sports editor
Tom Giffen, retired artist Art Krummel and former BJ assistant managing editor
(and PD honcho for a while) Stuart Warner bring up an interesting point in
their Facebook discussion of how the media treats different events, well, differently.
Tom started it off with: “The media's overall comparable
indifference to the deaths of 15 first responders in the West, Texas,
fertilizer plant explosion. Everyone knows the name of the campus policeman
killed in Boston, but who can name one person killed in Texas (without looking
it up)? I guess a fertilizer plant explosion just isn't very sexy in the
overall scheme of things."
Stuart chimes in: “The fertilizer plant would have been
very sexy if it had been in Manhattan.”
Tom also was unhappy that former New York Jets
quarterback Tim Tebow’s open expression of his religion and faith is the cause
of ridicule.
Art’s thoughts: “Tom, I've been thinking the same thing
about Tebow. Belittled and snickered at for expressing his faith. Yet ‘killer’
linebackers are cheered from shore to shore.”
Art may have in mind Ray Lewis, former Baltimore Ravens
linebacker, who was involved in a 2000 fight that resulted in indictments for
murder and aggravated assault. He was allowed to plead guilty to obstruction of
justice in return for testifying against two others involved in the killing – the
two who rode away from the crime scene with Lewis in his limo after the two stabbing
deaths outside an Atlanta night club with a knife that had Lewis’ name on the
receipt as the purchaser.
If you have an opinion about how the media treats some
deaths so differently than others, click on the “Comments” at the end of this
article and let us know how you feel.
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