running in black

A story running in the black blogosphere is about the brutal murder of Rashawn Brazell. Try Kendal Brown's Pondering Negro blog for the story.

The great lament is that the national, and even the local, media are not covering the story.

The capriciousness of the Main Stream Media cannot be overestimated.

A murder happened in Columbus 25 years ago that was nearly as brutal as this one. Monday the killer won parole, the story did not get a lot of attention.

A story needs a complete set of elements to attract attention. It needs a personable victim with lots of details and pictures, it needs a suspect, it needs someone that can fall from grace, someone we can have doubts about, and someone we can cheer on to victory. A story needs a cast of characters before the media will jump on to it.

There are 15 to 16 thousand murders in the USA every year. Almost all of them are between the murderer and the victim. That's too small a cast for the media to show much interest.