CNN found 50X more white gunmen than Black gunmen

by philg

Following this weekend’s unfortunate events in Jacksonville, Florida, a gun-loving friend sent me a CNN article and remarked on the phrase “white gunman” occurring within the first three words.

I used the Google to find the precise phrase “white gunman” on cnn.com:

158 results. Compare to “Black gunman”:

(Black Lives Matter, but Black capitalization does not; Google shows the same 3 results for “black gunman”.)

In other words, the reader of CNN would infer that there are 50 white gunmen in the U.S. for every Black gunman.

4 thoughts on “CNN found 50X more white gunmen than Black gunmen”

  1. It could be that it’s somehow more newsworthy when a gunman is white. Maybe it’s more rare or somehow more of a problem.

    • Or it could be that the people who publish this stuff don’t want the public to reflect on the fact black males committing violent crime, typically against other black males, make up a disproportionate amount of the crime statistics in the US. Whites are about 60% of the population and blacks around 12.5% yet blacks (including Blacks) punch way above their weight in the crime statistics. Asians, sadly, are underrepresented in the violent crime statistics. See https://bjs.ojp.gov/content/pub/pdf/revcoa18.pdf

  2. Same in Europe. Mainstream only reports the skin color if the perpetrator is White (CNN now capitalizes “White”!). For accurate reporting on these issues I read Israeli newspapers.

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