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People have been protesting peacefully in Baltimore all last week with 0 answers from the police or elected officials. No media was talking about it, there was
by akilism 11y ago
People have been protesting peacefully in Baltimore all last week with 0 answers from the police or elected officials. No media was talking about it, there was no Freddie Gray thread on hackernews, but now the whole world is talking about it.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoHm except for HN, which has 3 comments about Valve's decision to change their mod rates, for every one about Baltimore.
- k-mcgrady 11y agoSeveral reasons: 1. This is a community primarily for technology posts. Occasionally news makes it here but it has to be a pretty big story. 2. Although this is a relatively big story it's a US centric story when HN is a global community. Personally I've seen so many of these horrible police brutality stories from the US in the last year that they've lost my attention. I saw the Twitter hash tag a few days ago, saw it was a police brutality thing, and didn't even bother looking further. It's almost become accepted fact that police in the US are militarised, heavy handed, and criminal, and no matter what the reaction there or around the world is nobody seems to have the ability to (or want to) change things.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoI see. Please note that characterization of the police is an exaggeration of the media. Similarly, the USA consists of cowboys and Indians.
- blfr 11y agoThere is a specific guideline against mainstream politics and crime stories on HN.
- fixxer 11y agoYeah, and they're not talking about it in a way that supports the cause are they?
- tzs 11y ago> People have been protesting peacefully in Baltimore all last week with 0 answers from the police or elected officials. No media was talking about it, [...] It's almost a law of the internet that when someone claims media is not talking about something they turn out to be wrong: April 24th: stories in New York Times, New York Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Boston Herald, NPR, NBC News, ABC News. April 23rd: CNN, The Guardian, ABC News, Washington Post, Christian Science Monitor. April 22nd: TIME, Daily Mail, New York Daily News, ABC News, Christian Science Monitor. April 21st: CNN, Washington Post, New York Times, ABC News, Huffington Post, The New Yorker, The Guardian April 20th: New York Times, NBC News, Washington Post, The Guardian, Slate. April 19th: CBS News, Al Jazeera America, Wall Street Journal.