Media Ignored NAACP Bombing Because it Doesn’t Understand Reality of Black Life in America

Posted by | January 8, 2015 21:00 | Filed under: Contributors Media/Show Business News Behaving Badly Opinion Tommy Christopher Top Stories

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The terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine headquarters that killed 12 people has completely dominated the news since Wednesday morning, understandably so. Aside from the cold newsroom calculus about what leads, the apparent motivation for the attack was a uniquely offensive one for Americans, particularly for American journalists, and fed into an already-roiling American debate over Islam and terrorism. But other things did happen yesterday and today, and they got reported at least a little bit.

Not so the bombing of an NAACP field office in Colorado Springs, Colorado, at least not for most of the first two days following the bombing. I watch a lot of news, but I only found out about the NAACP bombing when someone on Twitter asked me when/if we might be writing something about it. Outrage over the lack of coverage became evident when the #NAACPBombing hashtag became a top trending topic on Twitter, even as the mainstream media shut the news out almost completely.

The bombing happened on Tuesday, and as of this afternoon…READ MORE

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By: Tommy Christopher

Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.

64 responses to Media Ignored NAACP Bombing Because it Doesn’t Understand Reality of Black Life in America

  1. rg9rts January 12th, 2015 at 07:08

    You need a bodycount…

  2. rg9rts January 12th, 2015 at 08:08

    You need a bodycount…

  3. Red Eye Robot February 20th, 2015 at 16:47

    Thaddeus Murphy, 44, told federal agents he made the pipe bomb out of a shotgun shell and fireworks fuses, according to the documents. He said he was angry because the accountant wouldn’t return his phone calls or give him back his tax records.

  4. Red Eye Robot February 20th, 2015 at 17:47

    Thaddeus Murphy, 44, told federal agents he made the pipe bomb out of a shotgun shell and fireworks fuses, according to the documents. He said he was angry because the accountant wouldn’t return his phone calls or give him back his tax records.

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