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I am a news addict and watch all of the local channels' newscasts. Oddly, this tape clip has never appeared locally at all, in spite of lots of other more lame clips from all over the country. None of the broadcast networks has shown it either.
This clip will not be played because it doesn't fit the mold that the mainstream media is trying to promulgate ie straight, white, Christian, and/or male=bad, everyone else=good... The number of stories like this is endless. At the same time the Matthew Sheppard case was being beat over the publics' head, night after night, about the killing of a gay man by straight men, this story of a young boy being raped and murdered by two gay men got crickets on the national news networks. While discussing this disparity of fair news coverage with an openly gay woman, she told me that this was a good thing, as otherwise it would lead to reprisals against gay people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Jesse_Dirkhising
So...its quite simple. If anyone straight, white, male and/or Christian commits a crime, its OK to prominently feature the story on national news. If an individual belonging to a racial, gender or sexual minority commits the same crime, it must not be featured, lest public opinion turn negative towards that group.
Keith