Liberal media and the man bites dog story

After "it bleeds it leads," one of the mainstream media's favourite pre-occupations is, as Steve Sailer points out, the atypical 'man bites dog' story. In crime reporting this often means a fixation on racially motivated crime among whites and organised crime among East Asians - both of which are statistically infrequent compared with the run-of-the-mill underclass crime that's more common among economically under-achieving minorities.

Such is the case with a Press story about the recent murder of an immigrant taxi driver in Christchurch entitled "Teens face killing charge," which had a page two follow up title "Racial link to killing feared," in which another unidentified taxi driver was given the chance to comment about cultural intolerance among Christchurch citizens, and was quoted as saying the murder wouldn't have happened if the man had been white.

This speculative material was deemed newsworthy despite the fact that the names and ethnicities of the two accused youths have not been revealed and that a police spokesman has clearly stated the motive for the murder is not yet known.

Similarly, in the same way racially motivated crime is exaggerated, the power of racialist politics is also over-played. As a rather disallutioned commentator on the white nationalist website Majority Rights points out, the level of serious white racialist political activism in the US is tiny, but is talked up by increasingly irrelevant left-liberal organisations like the Southern Poverty Law Center to gain funding.