ANYBODY SURPRISED ?

Media That Routinely Called Zimmerman ‘White’ Avoids Describing Christopher Lane’s Killers                                                                      

August 21st, 2013

                                The media’s decision to reveal the races of the principle actors in the coverage of Trayvon Martin’s killing and their efforts to conceal the descriptions of Christopher Lane’s murderers is instructive only in how the press identifies narratives. The fact is that the race of Lane’s killers is as relevant as was the race of Martin’s killer, which is to say not that relevant at all. The key difference is as simple as the fact that one narrative attracts attention, e.g. “sells,” while the other does not        read story  The media that arguably fostered the creation of a racial angle in the killing of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman from the minute it became a national story has contorted itself in tortured ways to avoid describing the suspects in Lane’s