The Politics of The Media Use of Code Words

[Sawbriars]

The sop of the Media using the word 'teens' in reference to a certain group when they commit mayhem of one sort or another...from riots, to brutual violent assaults--etc. and so on and so forth continues unabated.

The question is why does the media fell the necessity to use a 'code word' to describe criminal suspects...particuarly when in many cases a search is on for the perps?

This of course is much more than just a issue of public safety....but public safety should be of paramount importance ....not only to the media but to government officials who are sworn to protect the public.

Yet these elected officials and the media subjugate the public's safety to an overiding concern of being politically correct.

VIDEO: 4 Suspects Sought In Brick Attack In North Philadelphia « CBS Philly

 

[iamwhatiseem]

You mean instead of saying black teens?

 

[Katzndogz]

How about black men? The impression these reports want to leave is that these are just children having a good time and unfortunately some racist got hurt.

 

[frigidweirdo]

The media likes to sell stories. Just like art has people who sell gimmicky art, the media needs its buzzwords. They sell.

Put "man kills man" no one cares. Put "Muslims kill racist" and all of a sudden people want to know what it's about.

They play on the fears that people have.

Post 9/11 and Bush said "War on Terror" and "al Qaeda" every day. Soon films were using Islamic or Arabic music for the bad guy scenes, all you need to do in mention a Muslim and everyone gets the message of badness.

People buy this nonsense, so the media sells it to them.

 

[bedowin62]

The media likes to sell stories. Just like art has people who sell gimmicky art, the media needs its buzzwords. They sell.

Put "man kills man" no one cares. Put "Muslims kill racist" and all of a sudden people want to know what it's about.

They play on the fears that people have.

Post 9/11 and Bush said "War on Terror" and "al Qaeda" every day. Soon films were using Islamic or Arabic music for the bad guy scenes, all you need to do in mention a Muslim and everyone gets the message of badness.

People buy this nonsense, so the media sells it to them.

People who get a message of badness regarding Muslims may have something to do with some Muslims; not all but way too many; doing things like flying planes full of innocent civilians into buildings full of innocent civilians; stonig women to death for walking down the street with a male who isnt a relative, strapping bombs on their bodies and cars and blowing up marketplaces full of women and children, untill brains and body parts are splattered over the streets and on walls.

my God you're an idiot

 

[frigidweirdo]

People who get a message of badness regarding Muslims may have something to do with some Muslims; not all but way too many; doing things like flying planes full of innocent civilians into buildings full of innocent civilians; stonig women to death for walking down the street with a male who isnt a relative, strapping bombs on their bodies and cars and blowing up marketplaces full of women and children, untill brains and body parts are splattered over the streets and on walls.

my God you're an idiot

You know, insulting really doesn't do much for your beauty, or for your argument. So.... leave it out.

When I look at a lot of what people say about Muslims, I despair. People look at what they're given and nothing much else.

If I gave you a list of Muslim countries that were controlled by the British, which often involved choosing leaders, assassinating leaders, taking resources, torture, killing, imposing their will and so on, the list would be quite long.

Before the British got involved, and the French to a certain degree, Islam was going more secular, it would probably have turned into a religion similar to Christianity.

However the British gave Muslims a reason to use Jihad, they were fighting a superior and arrogant enemy, and they entered Afghanistan. Read a book called "Butcher and Bolt", it's about Afghanistan, mainly the British and you can see by the title how they dealt with things.

Not much has changed with the Americans taking the mantle. They've been interfering in Islamic politics and making extremists much more powerful.

Bush saying "al Qaeda" every single day for years made a lot of Muslim extremist groups want to be "al Qaeda", it was a sign you'd reached the top. Bush was recruiter number one for this group.

You can see what happened with the London bombing, were some disaffected kids, born in the UK, went and killed people. How did they get this extremism when the parents or grandparents who went to Britain, went for a better life?

If people keep pretending that they can go around the world f*cking it up big time, getting rid of OPEC leaders they don't like (Saddam, Chavez for a few days, Gadaffi, not managed the only other OPEC nation that the US doesn't like, in Iran), allowing Israel to take the mick massively especially under Sharon's regime, and not rein in the issues that come about from US money that is sent over there and other such issues, then you're going to get Muslims feeling like they need to fight back.

I mean, if Iraq invaded the US, how many Americans do you think would have fought back?

So, your insult is wrong, I have looked at this situation and seen it for what it is. You might not like this, and you might continue to use insults instead of an argument, you might not look at the situation that has been happening for hundreds of years, but that doesn't mean your insults are true.

So you can debate, or you can insult. Your choice.

 

[ClosedCaption]

The sop of the Media using the word 'teens' in reference to a certain group when they commit mayhem of one sort or another...from riots, to brutual violent assaults--etc. and so on and so forth continues unabated.

The question is why does the media fell the necessity to use a 'code word' to describe criminal suspects...particuarly when in many cases a search is on for the perps?

This of course is much more than just a issue of public safety....but public safety should be of paramount importance ....not only to the media but to government officials who are sworn to protect the public.

Yet these elected officials and the media subjugate the public's safety to an overiding concern of being politically correct.

VIDEO: 4 Suspects Sought In Brick Attack In North Philadelphia « CBS Philly

The right will tell you there is no such thing as code words

 

[ClosedCaption]

You mean whenever white people riot after a sporting event the media calls them "overzealous fans" instead of "rioters"?

 

[kaz]

People buy this nonsense, so the media sells it to them.

Actually, one thing Fox News has shown by vaulting to #1 and staying strongly there is that the liberal media isn't constantly biased left because it sells. They are constantly biased left in spite of the fact that it doesn't.

It's not just that people want to hear conservative views either, what particularly appeals to people about Fox is that unlike the leftwing media, you hear multiple points of view. The media's lie they just do what they do for ratings has been dead and buried by empirical data a long time now.

 

[ClosedCaption]

People buy this nonsense, so the media sells it to them.

Actually, one thing FoxNews has shown by vaulting to #1 and staying strongly there is that the liberal media isn't constantly biased left because it sells. They are constantly biased left in spite of the fact that it doesn't.

It's not just that people want to hear conservative views too, what particularly appeals to people about Fox is that unlike the leftwing media, you hear multiple points of view. The media's lie they just do what they do for ratings has been dead and buried by empirical data a long time now.

Sure! Companies are no longer interested in profits. UP is Down...Water is Dry....Rain falls up!

This is how fucking silly you have to get to believe this bull

 

[GreenBean]

The media likes to sell stories. Just like art has people who sell gimmicky art, the media needs its buzzwords. They sell.
b
Put "man kills man" no one cares. Put "Muslims kill racist" and all of a sudden people want to know what it's about.

They play on the fears that people have.

Post 9/11 and Bush said "War on Terror" and "al Qaeda" every day. Soon films were using Islamic or Arabic music for the bad guy scenes, all you need to do in mention a Muslim and everyone gets the message of badness.

People buy this nonsense, so the media sells it to them.

This is True, look at the Trayvon Martin case . Media blasted the story that an innocent little black kid went buy skittles and a drink and got gunned down by a viscous racist.

When in fact a young punk initiated a confrontation that ended in his death at the hands of an idiot.

 

[kaz]

People buy this nonsense, so the media sells it to them.

Actually, one thing FoxNews has shown by vaulting to #1 and staying strongly there is that the liberal media isn't constantly biased left because it sells. They are constantly biased left in spite of the fact that it doesn't.

It's not just that people want to hear conservative views too, what particularly appeals to people about Fox is that unlike the leftwing media, you hear multiple points of view. The media's lie they just do what they do for ratings has been dead and buried by empirical data a long time now.

Sure! Companies are no longer interested in profits. UP is Down...Water is Dry....Rain falls up!

This is how fucking silly you have to get to believe this bull

All you have to do is watch them.

But wow, liberals like the media the way it is. Wow, you're right, that totally means they aren't biased towards liberals...

LOL

 

[Little-Acorn]

The sop of the Media using the word 'teens' in reference to a certain group when they commit mayhem of one sort or another...from riots, to brutual violent assaults--etc. and so on and so forth continues unabated.

The question is why does the media fell the necessity to use a 'code word' to describe criminal suspects...particuarly when in many cases a search is on for the perps?

They're afraid of liberal fanatics such as the ones on this board (and in many other places, look around you) calling them "racist" for reporting far more crimes by blacks, than by whites.

Basically, they have been intimidated by the usual liberal liars... many of whom are members of the press themselves, or are being given an aura of respectability they don't deserve, by the press (See Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, etc.)

It's kind of ironic. A few leftist fanatics gibbering on and calling people "racist" when they aren't, normally wouldn't be a big deal. Normal people are smart enough to ignore such wild-eyed lunks. But when the lunks are in the media, or are being showcased by the media to a huge degree that they don't merit, they have a sheen of respectablility, and people tend to believe their lies.

And now we find even members of the media, even those who genuinely aren't racist, cowering in fear at the thought their fellow lunks might broadcast that they are racists. They are far more afraid of getting called racists, than of actually BEING racists.

The media works for sensationalism and ratings, not news and truth. And now the ones who have lived by that sword, are dying by it. And taking the rest of us with them, by not reporting the truth.

 

[ClosedCaption]

Actually, one thing FoxNews has shown by vaulting to #1 and staying strongly there is that the liberal media isn't constantly biased left because it sells. They are constantly biased left in spite of the fact that it doesn't.

It's not just that people want to hear conservative views too, what particularly appeals to people about Fox is that unlike the leftwing media, you hear multiple points of view. The media's lie they just do what they do for ratings has been dead and buried by empirical data a long time now.

Sure! Companies are no longer interested in profits. UP is Down...Water is Dry....Rain falls up!

This is how fucking silly you have to get to believe this bull

All you have to do is watch them.

But wow, liberals like the media the way it is. Wow, you're right, that totally means they aren't biased towards liberals...

LOL

Wow great defense I've learned something new.

 

[jillian]

The sop of the Media using the word 'teens' in reference to a certain group when they commit mayhem of one sort or another...from riots, to brutual violent assaults--etc. and so on and so forth continues unabated.

The question is why does the media fell the necessity to use a 'code word' to describe criminal suspects...particuarly when in many cases a search is on for the perps?

This of course is much more than just a issue of public safety....but public safety should be of paramount importance ....not only to the media but to government officials who are sworn to protect the public.

Yet these elected officials and the media subjugate the public's safety to an overiding concern of being politically correct.

VIDEO: 4 Suspects Sought In Brick Attack In North Philadelphia « CBS Philly

So basically, what you're saying is that you don't think media is racist enough for your tastes.

 

[bedowin62]

People who get a message of badness regarding Muslims may have something to do with some Muslims; not all but way too many; doing things like flying planes full of innocent civilians into buildings full of innocent civilians; stonig women to death for walking down the street with a male who isnt a relative, strapping bombs on their bodies and cars and blowing up marketplaces full of women and children, untill brains and body parts are splattered over the streets and on walls.

my God you're an idiot

You know, insulting really doesn't do much for your beauty, or for your argument. So.... leave it out.

When I look at a lot of what people say about Muslims, I despair. People look at what they're given and nothing much else.

If I gave you a list of Muslim countries that were controlled by the British, which often involved choosing leaders, assassinating leaders, taking resources, torture, killing, imposing their will and so on, the list would be quite long.

Before the British got involved, and the French to a certain degree, Islam was going more secular, it would probably have turned into a religion similar to Christianity.

However the British gave Muslims a reason to use Jihad, they were fighting a superior and arrogant enemy, and they entered Afghanistan. Read a book called "Butcher and Bolt", it's about Afghanistan, mainly the British and you can see by the title how they dealt with things.

Not much has changed with the Americans taking the mantle. They've been interfering in Islamic politics and making extremists much more powerful.

Bush saying "al Qaeda" every single day for years made a lot of Muslim extremist groups want to be "al Qaeda", it was a sign you'd reached the top. Bush was recruiter number one for this group.

You can see what happened with the London bombing, were some disaffected kids, born in the UK, went and killed people. How did they get this extremism when the parents or grandparents who went to Britain, went for a better life?

If people keep pretending that they can go around the world f*cking it up big time, getting rid of OPEC leaders they don't like (Saddam, Chavez for a few days, Gadaffi, not managed the only other OPEC nation that the US doesn't like, in Iran), allowing Israel to take the mick massively especially under Sharon's regime, and not rein in the issues that come about from US money that is sent over there and other such issues, then you're going to get Muslims feeling like they need to fight back.

I mean, if Iraq invaded the US, how many Americans do you think would have fought back?

So, your insult is wrong, I have looked at this situation and seen it for what it is. You might not like this, and you might continue to use insults instead of an argument, you might not look at the situation that has been happening for hundreds of years, but that doesn't mean your insults are true.

So you can debate, or you can insult. Your choice.

you're not good enough for me to feel you're important enough to read your whole posts, unless they're short which thankfully they usually are. but one glance and i see the same idiotic moral equivalency the other left-wing nutjobs use. "if Iraq had invaded the US..."?
is that the best you can do leftard?

i can debate or insult it's true. when you say something worthy of debate i will

 

[kaz]

The sop of the Media using the word 'teens' in reference to a certain group when they commit mayhem of one sort or another...from riots, to brutual violent assaults--etc. and so on and so forth continues unabated.

The question is why does the media fell the necessity to use a 'code word' to describe criminal suspects...particuarly when in many cases a search is on for the perps?

This of course is much more than just a issue of public safety....but public safety should be of paramount importance ....not only to the media but to government officials who are sworn to protect the public.

Yet these elected officials and the media subjugate the public's safety to an overiding concern of being politically correct.

VIDEO: 4 Suspects Sought In Brick Attack In North Philadelphia « CBS Philly

So basically, what you're saying is that you don't think media is racist enough for your tastes.

It's "racist" to identify a black as a black, got it.

 

[Sawbriars]

You mean whenever white people riot after a sporting event the media calls them "overzealous fans" instead of "rioters"?

You might have a point there if something like that ever happened....I mean at least more than once every hundred years.

 

[bedowin62]

People who get a message of badness regarding Muslims may have something to do with some Muslims; not all but way too many; doing things like flying planes full of innocent civilians into buildings full of innocent civilians; stonig women to death for walking down the street with a male who isnt a relative, strapping bombs on their bodies and cars and blowing up marketplaces full of women and children, untill brains and body parts are splattered over the streets and on walls.

my God you're an idiot

You know, insulting really doesn't do much for your beauty, or for your argument. So.... leave it out.

When I look at a lot of what people say about Muslims, I despair. People look at what they're given and nothing much else.

If I gave you a list of Muslim countries that were controlled by the British, which often involved choosing leaders, assassinating leaders, taking resources, torture, killing, imposing their will and so on, the list would be quite long.

Before the British got involved, and the French to a certain degree, Islam was going more secular, it would probably have turned into a religion similar to Christianity.

However the British gave Muslims a reason to use Jihad, they were fighting a superior and arrogant enemy, and they entered Afghanistan. Read a book called "Butcher and Bolt", it's about Afghanistan, mainly the British and you can see by the title how they dealt with things.

Not much has changed with the Americans taking the mantle. They've been interfering in Islamic politics and making extremists much more powerful.

Bush saying "al Qaeda" every single day for years made a lot of Muslim extremist groups want to be "al Qaeda", it was a sign you'd reached the top. Bush was recruiter number one for this group.

You can see what happened with the London bombing, were some disaffected kids, born in the UK, went and killed people. How did they get this extremism when the parents or grandparents who went to Britain, went for a better life?

If people keep pretending that they can go around the world f*cking it up big time, getting rid of OPEC leaders they don't like (Saddam, Chavez for a few days, Gadaffi, not managed the only other OPEC nation that the US doesn't like, in Iran), allowing Israel to take the mick massively especially under Sharon's regime, and not rein in the issues that come about from US money that is sent over there and other such issues, then you're going to get Muslims feeling like they need to fight back.

I mean, if Iraq invaded the US, how many Americans do you think would have fought back?

So, your insult is wrong, I have looked at this situation and seen it for what it is. You might not like this, and you might continue to use insults instead of an argument, you might not look at the situation that has been happening for hundreds of years, but that doesn't mean your insults are true.

So you can debate, or you can insult. Your choice.

you're not good enough for me to feel you're important enough to read your whole posts, unless they're short which thankfully they usually are. but one glance and i see the same idiotic moral equivalency the other left-wing nutjobs use. "if Iraq had invaded the US..."?
is that the best you can do leftard?

i can debate or insult it's true. when you say something worthy of debate i will

you're comical; where do i even begin? if Bush saying Al Qaeda every day was a recrutiment tool for religidous fanatics; then what is obama's TRIPLING of drone strikes over the Bush count doing for islamic fanatic recruitment? or obaa's incessant "Bin laden is dead and Detroit is alive" sloganeering?
in your world nobody ever does anything "wrong" because you're a fool conditioned to believe taking a stance on right and wrong IS wrong; and nobody ever does anything unless first put up to it by mean ol Western powers. children of muslim immigrants who went to the UK got radicalized there because of the cowardice of people like you who were too politically-correct to address hate being preached in the mosques there

 

[Sawbriars]

The media likes to sell stories. Just like art has people who sell gimmicky art, the media needs its buzzwords. They sell.
b
Put "man kills man" no one cares. Put "Muslims kill racist" and all of a sudden people want to know what it's about.

They play on the fears that people have.

Post 9/11 and Bush said "War on Terror" and "al Qaeda" every day. Soon films were using Islamic or Arabic music for the bad guy scenes, all you need to do in mention a Muslim and everyone gets the message of badness.

People buy this nonsense, so the media sells it to them.

This is True, look at the Trayvon Martin case . Media blasted the story that an innocent little black kid went buy skittles and a drink and got gunned down by a viscous racist.

When in fact a young punk initiated a confrontation that ended in his death at the hands of an idiot.

You were right on target until you claimed the Honorable George Zimmerman was a idiot.....which even if true has nothing to do with that case...but irregardless what makes you think he is a idiot?