“I’ve got to find myself an exit out of this situation.”He told The Detroit Free Press that the incident started when the boys started attacking four African-Americans. These young men were beastly and these old black individuals was their prey.”Many news organizations ran one of these accounts. Before you judge the reporters too harshly, it’s important to remember that these days the social media tail wags the mainstream media dog. If you want your story to be well placed and if you want to be professionally rewarded, you have to generate page views — you have to incite social media. In this one episode, you had a gentle, 64-year-old Native American man being swarmed by white (boo!

Source: New York Times January 22, 2019 01:42 UTC