Is the Media Proliferating Multi-Cultural Bias?
crime. You will also notice that if the criminal is white, they almost never mention that during the report (unless the suspect is at large). I first noticed this phenomenon while watching a news broadcast about the Virginia Tech shootings. The story included a picture of the shooter. As the picture showed on the screen, the anchor described the man as “South Korean”. The first thought that came into my mind was, what possible difference does it make what this person’s racial background was? The more I thought about it, the more it occurred to me that this type of thing happens all throughout the media on a disturbingly regular basis. The events of September 11 are another prime example of unnecessary adjective usage. Did it really make any difference that the terrorists were Islamic? They could just as easily have been white American terrorists; however, the media likely would not have as much mention of that fact as they did when the terrorists are from another country with religious
