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The Detroit News and Detroit Free Press also presented the crash program as a great success, repeating the line from the mayor and DPD. The DPD announced that other nurses who worked at the hospital where Betty James had been employed could call a police officer for an escort home. The white newspapers focused extensively on her vulnerability as a white working-class mother who had a job in the dangerous business district, and portrayed her despondent husband and abandoned children as a tragedy that could happen to any reader. Citizens were terrified to walk alone at night, husbands did not want their wives to walk to work, people were afraid even to go to the grocery store. Media coverage amplified these fears, especially after the second Betty James slaying. Numerous articles in the Free Press and Detroit News recounted the pervasive fear of violent crime across Detroit, focused primarily on the fear as experienced by white people. The point was to justify the crash program, but the statistics also raise the question of why these two victims, whose suspects were "Negro men," received such disproportionate attention from the city government, police department, news media, and general public. The Free Press ran multiple stories about the family of Betty James and warned the public of the "recent attacks by Negro men on women in heavily travelled areas of Detroit."Īt the height of crash, the Detroit News reported that the city had experienced 157 murders during 1960, the most violent year on record since 1931. The Detroit News even announced separate $5,000 awards for the capture of the killers of Marilyn Lou Donohhue and Betty James. The two mainstream newspapers, the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News, hyped the alleged crime wave, cheered on the police crackdown, and provided saturation coverage of white victims of violent crime in ways never done for black victims. Note the suspect description, bottom right. Patterns of Police Brutality/Misconductĭetroit News, Dec.They also promote conspiracy theories and pseudoscience by endorsing websites that promote such. In general, this source provides curated news stories that lean right and sometimes use poor sources. Further, they also offer a link to, which promotes pseudoscience and conspiracy theories regarding wireless technologies. On the website’s sidebar, they provide a link to Scholars for 9/11 Truth, which promotes 9/11 conspiracies such as controlled demolition and an inside job. All of whom have failed numerous fact checks. However, there is an equal use of poor sources such as the New York Post, National File, Breitbart, and PJ Media. A review of 50 news stories reveals more favoring the right using credible sources such as The Hill, Reuters, and MSN. For news curation sites, we analyze the topic selection and sources used. In review, in the past, CLG News provided original writing by Michael Rectenwald however, in 2020, they appear only to give summaries of news stories and provide links to the source.
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