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Newspaper Slant Case

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the past year there have been approximately 900 people who have been shot by the police, mainly Blacks followed by Hispanics and lastly White. Reporters mainly cover the news about Black people being killed leaving out other the races that are also being killed. A particular case was the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson when a White police shot and killed Brown. Many journalists’ weren’t at the crime scene, leaving them to judge from what other people saw. Since journalists’ try to be discreetly bias, they will go off of what they believe is correct. If they favor White people, their stories will lean more on that side saying the cops are morally correct. But if they favor Black people their stories will lean towards punishing the White police. …show more content…

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