A new low even for you hermanyutic.
Using the misfortune of an abused child to push your homophobic agenda.

You couldn't give a damn about any of the victims you wrote about, but only want to spread your message of hatred.

Troll.

Feed at your own liability.

Yawn.

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Pericles,
<Maybe you're not looking in the right place.>
But that is precisely my point.
You have to look in places other than the mainstream media (exemplified, by me, using NYT).
How analogous are these stories?
Duke university.
White on black.
Sexual crime.
Yet one is plastered wall to wall and the other is effectively hushed up (in the NYT, representing the MSM).

Another example:
Mathew Shepard: 21yo homosexual tortured and left to die (1,890 hits on NYT; 1,110,000 on Google).
Jesse Dirkhising: 15yo abducted, drugged, sodomised and left to die by his homosexual assailants (zero hits on NYT; 39,600 on Google)

But it's not just incidents involving homosexuals that receive selective treatment.
They are not the only victim group.
Christopher Newsom and Channon Christian (a white couple) were abducted, raped, tortured and murdered by a gang of five blacks.
One sanitised article in the NYT.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B02E7DF153CF932A05753C1A96F9C8B63
And if you don't believe that is sanitised, you want to read the whole story.
It is impossible to believe that if a black couple had suffered the same fate at the hands of a gang of five whites that there wouldn't have been dozens, if not hundreds of articles with all the gory details.

We can see the same phenomenon being played out right here on OLO.
People like:
mikk;
suzeonline;
CJ Morgan;
are representative of this problem.

If it conflicts with their ideology,
If it causes them cognitive dissonance,
If the truth is put in their face,
They turn it around into an attack on those who aren't afraid to address the problem.

And the problem is this:
There is biased media coverage based on victim status in accordance with a "progressive" agenda.
It takes a special kind of ignorance to deny this in face of the facts.
But what will be the response of the aforementioned OLO contributors?
Herman is not only a homophobe, he's also a racist.

This seems to me to be more about the NYT than about anything else.

If a news item is not reported in the NYT, and yet reported in other newspapers like the Chicago Daily Herald and the Washington Examiner, then it's 'hushed up'?

That doesn't sound sensible to me. The NYT can choose what they want to print, but I don't think that you can pick it as the sole representative of the 'MSM'.

Well you are a fool and blind if you cannot see this pattern in reporting.

I am still in shock many years later how the race rape victims in Sydney were treated by the press. The story was oppressed, avoided and the reporter who eventually took it on abused for being "racist" for reporting the extent of racist crime? It was criminal but even worse the same pathetic mindset polluted the police force and the Lebanese gangs allowed freedoms to terrorise. The self described left (ha,ha) (trend followers, not thinkers) decided that the criminals were more worthy of their support than rape victims.

We see it over and over. Muslim women for eg who want to be liberated are against muslim women who do not feel a need to be relieved of the assorted modesty wardrobe items. Who do the pretend left support? The women who want to remain under wraps so to speak. A true liberal would support the muslim women that want support for moderate and modern Islamic interpretations.

Same with speech against religion. It used to the prime objective of the liberal to shout down religious nutcase theories. Now they side with the extremist that want to declare jihad against those that speak ill of Islam.

Indigenous - same. Some want the crime in their suburbs eliminate but they face the fake left brigade that demand it cannot be an issue. So they continue to suffer.

Of course many blame the communities themselves but then who has allowed to happen that by suppression of the real issues?

The vietnamese community is Sydney stood up against the nandy pandy mealy mouths. They demanded action to clean up their community with excellent results.

However the celebrity led fake left still beleive in boxes rather than people, in making good impressions rather than the individual so they support only gift box selections with easy to understand labels.

Lazy minded simpletons.

It is really is : Do we want to have an easy victory, do we want appease our audience, do we want to build a political bias. Do we simply aim to look right wthout the hassle of actually being right?

Or do we want: Justice and truth. A somewhat more difficult and less glamorous occupation as some have found out. Little wonder we have few good journalists.