Friday, August 5, 2011

[Fwd: [poynter] Re: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette 'Police Beat' column identifies suspects by race]

This totally mystifies me. The basic premise is that the Arkansas
Democrat was now printing the race of the criminals who are raping or
mugging or attacking people in the area and the question is whether they
should do this or not. Nobody, least of all me, said anything about
only printing this when the criminal is non-white and yet the responder
immediately jumped on the idea that the racial description is all too
often used only when the alleged criminal is not white. I bet the
victims are feeling all warm and fuzzy because they were attacked by
someone and the race cannot be printed because potentially white
criminals would not be identified as such while all others would be.
And the source of this story is a Journalism School - the Poynter
Journalism School in Florida. Sorry but their logic truly escapes me
totally.

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