Hey, for those of you who live in the Unite States.....I was curious.......have many people heard about the Duke Rape Scandal.......I know it's been all over ESPN, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and so many news networks. We heard all about this rape situation, and what happened to this stripper.
Okay, so my question is....and I want to bring attention to it, and I really wish I could make a movement on it, but here:
FRESNO, Calif. -- Police said that more arrests are likely in a rape case involving an 11-year-old girl who may have been attacked by as many as 10 men.
Two arrests have been made in the Saturday attack, and officials said they have identified eight others as "persons of interest." Most or all are students at either Fresno City College or Reedley College, police said.
Police said they're looking for a 15-year-old runaway girl who may know what happened the night the 11-year-old said she was raped by several college athletes.
Police said the accuser had also run away from a group home and apparently went to an apartment complex with the older girl Saturday night to visit a friend. The younger girl later ran from the building and told a couple she needed help. They called police. She said she was sexually assaulted multiple times by several men.
So, here you have an 11 year old child raped by possibly 10 different men.....so, how come athelete's at these two colleges rape a child, and it doesn't get national press coverage. I know someone is going to say "It's because Duke is a nationally known school" blah, blah, lame excuse.....this child was raped by 10 men that were athlete's at a college......yet it doesn't get coverage like Duke has.......covereage in the Duke rape scandel went on for two months....and we still hear about it here in NC.....what's the deal......anyone in the news industry that's a member of this site, maybe you could answer the question. Why some stories get national coverage, and others like this, are just left hiding in the shadws.......sort of like the Natalee Holloway story. Did you know that just a week before Natalee vanished that a 13 year spanish girl named Reyna Alvarado-Carerra was kidnapped by a stranger from her home in Georgia.....she's vanished and hasn't been found....is it because Natalee is a blonde hair, blue eyed girl, a cheerleader? The idea of the typical American girl? and Reyna Alvarado-Carerra is just some little spanish girl and no one cares?
So, is it because the victim at Duke was a black female in the south? Is that why her case got national coverage? Sorry, I just had to vent, and be upset, that this happens.
Slow news day? Really tho some times it's just luck. They put X number of news items on and some just get watched more, which means it gets played more, ect, ect
It's probably a combination of name recognition (Duke), prejudice (Holloway vs. Carerra), and plain old luck of the draw. If it catches the public eye, it stays in the news.
Ummm, its been picked up by all the wires, every major paper in the country has written about it and a quick google search shows that its been on TV stations from Long Beach to the UK.
You read every major paper in the country?
There's a difference between something being "picked up" by media (the fresno case) and something being a front page headline (the duke case)
DarthLunchBox said:
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Okay, so my question is....and I want to bring attention to it, and I really wish I could make a movement on it,
What kind of a movement? I'm not sure what your issue on this is (media/violence/etc), but I think you'd probably find some existing 'movements' for whatever your issue was.
Cecora said:
I would say name recognition and also people like to vulture on cases where there is something to get riled up about politically and culturally.
the fresno case is just ugly because it involves a girl so young
I jate to say it but your prob right. As bad as it is when people hear that a stripper got raped, it's worse when you here a 11 year old girl got gang raped. I don't even want to think about it.
Cecora said:
You read every major paper in the country?
There's a difference between something being "picked up" by media (the fresno case) and something being a front page headline (the duke case)
Ummm, there's this thing called "Google". Maybe you've heard of it.
Its a national story. If you look it ups it gets hundreds of hits. Why isn't it a "front page" story, gee, I dunno, perhaps the difference is:
Anonymous victim versus vocal victim.
One witness versus dozens.
Closed mouthed prosecutor versus grandstanding prosecutor.
Entire varsity squad of a top tier school versus two juco washouts.
DarthLunchBox
Fayetteville, NC
December 2003
JUL 13, 2006 04:50 PM