skippy the bush kangaroo: skippy writes a letter

Saturday, September 22, 2007

skippy writes a letter

skippy was perturbed when headline news anchor linda stouffer wrapped up a report about mike bell, the only defendant of the jena 6 to reamin in jail, with the remark that the black students beat up a white student leaving the white student "badly hurt."

skippy wrote to headline news:

on headline news today, linda stouffer claimed that mike bell, the only of the jena 6 still in jail, was involved in a beating of a white teen who was left "badly hurt."

in fact, according to gil kaufman reporting on mtv news, (http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1570075/20070919/id_0.jhtml), the white student, justin barker, was knocked out by one punch thrown by the black students, and then kicked in the head (leading to the assault with a deadly weapon charge; the weapon being the tennis shoe on bell's foot).

yes, that sounds like "badly beaten;" however, barker was treated at the hospital and released, and then attended a party that same night.

sorry, but without that mitigating context, i am afraid that you present a lop-sided view of the confrontation, leading viewers to believe the white student was savagedly attacked, when it was more like a school yard fight.

also, barker precipitated the fight by bragging on campus that the black students (involved in the fight) had been previously "whipped" by a white student in a previous fight.

ms. stouffer's short version, along with most of the media's condensed snippets, fails to provide the hostile acts perpetrated by the white students, and leaves one with the impression that the blacks are simply out of control.

i respectfully request that you do a larger, longer, more in-depth story on the background leading the incarceration of the jena 6.

thank you.

Labels: multi-millionaire media, racism

posted by skippy at 12:23 PM |

4 Comments:

Yeah, good luck with that.

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Milo Johnson, 12:58 PM PDT

You gang up on someone, knock him out, kick him in the head when unconscious--you go to jail for a long time. In a just world, anyway.

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The Phantom, 4:23 PM PDT

you might be right, phantom. too bad the white kids that ganged up on the black kids the day before and pulled a gun on them simply got a slap on the wrist.

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skippy, 7:56 PM PDT

I heard today on the tail end of a CNN report of this story (and only half-listening at that) that Bell had four prior incidents (arrests?) for assault which was completely new to me. Seems a great deal of detail is not being given during most of the coverage. And to be honest I haven't been following this story very closely.

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