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thetonightshow: thenoobyorker: “Brisenia Flores, the nine year old girl who was murdered in Arizona, shot by a group of pseudo-vigilantes who forced their way into her home looking to steal drug money that was to be used to finance a citizen border protection organization. They killed her father, wounded her mother and then killed the nine year old for reasons that still make no sense. Basically, it was a group of anti-immigrants who killed a little Latina girl to pay for their anti-immigrant activities. Perfect fodder for Grace and her ilk, no? In fact, the third and last defendant in the Brisenia Flores murder trial, Albert Gaxiola, was being tried at the same time as Casey Anthony. But not a peep in the media. This isn’t to diminish what happened to little Caylee Anthony. It is a horrible crime that has yet to be solved. But the story quickly went from being sad to being a side-show – amplified by the 24 hour news wheel and the instant Internet repost cycle. We talked about it, we tweeted about it, we linked to it on FaceBook.” — Caylee And Brisena: Why The Difference In Coverage? “How does this compare to the attention given to the Brisenia case? It doesn’t. Comparatively, the Brisenia case is no less sad, no less outrageous. The only difference is that she was Latina. And please don’t misconstrue my intent. This isn’t to take a victim stance, to say poor-are-we because our victim of heinous crime didn’t get the same attention as the little white girl. This is simply to point out a very real circumstance that has as much to do with the overblown coverage of the Casey trial as it does with the lack of attention to the Brisenia trial. The biggest difference now is that the Brisenia trial is not yet over. Two of the three defendants have been found guilty, the third trial is under way. I’m wondering if Nancy Grace will have something to say about that.” CNN.com currently has 1,334 narratives detailing the Casey Anthony trial and 10 over Brisenia Flores. It isn’t likely that major news organizations who have acknowledged this trial at a push or have yet to just spread thin abruptly. The lack of coverage isn’t due to personnel or financial limitations. Factoring race and moral values that are complicit into the coverage equation is imperative. What else to believe at this point?

thetonightshow:

thenoobyorker:

“Brisenia Flores, the nine year old girl who was murdered in Arizona, shot by a group of pseudo-vigilantes who forced their way into her home looking to steal drug money that was to be used to finance a citizen border protection organization. They killed her father, wounded her mother and then killed the nine year old for reasons that still make no sense. Basically, it was a group of anti-immigrants who killed a little Latina girl to pay for their anti-immigrant activities. Perfect fodder for Grace and her ilk, no? In fact, the third and last defendant in the Brisenia Flores murder trial, Albert Gaxiola, was being tried at the same time as Casey Anthony. But not a peep in the media.
This isn’t to diminish what happened to little Caylee Anthony. It is a horrible crime that has yet to be solved. But the story quickly went from being sad to being a side-show – amplified by the 24 hour news wheel and the instant Internet repost cycle. We talked about it, we tweeted about it, we linked to it on FaceBook.”

— Caylee And Brisena: Why The Difference In Coverage?

“How does this compare to the attention given to the Brisenia case? It doesn’t. Comparatively, the Brisenia case is no less sad, no less outrageous. The only difference is that she was Latina. And please don’t misconstrue my intent. This isn’t to take a victim stance, to say poor-are-we because our victim of heinous crime didn’t get the same attention as the little white girl. This is simply to point out a very real circumstance that has as much to do with the overblown coverage of the Casey trial as it does with the lack of attention to the Brisenia trial. The biggest difference now is that the Brisenia trial is not yet over. Two of the three defendants have been found guilty, the third trial is under way. I’m wondering if Nancy Grace will have something to say about that.”

CNN.com currently has 1,334 narratives detailing the Casey Anthony trial and 10 over Brisenia Flores. It isn’t likely that major news organizations who have acknowledged this trial at a push or have yet to just spread thin abruptly. The lack of coverage isn’t due to personnel or financial limitations. Factoring race and moral values that are complicit into the coverage equation is imperative. What else to believe at this point?

(via jennthem)

2011.07.10  4:01pm  ∞

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