Questions raised over Virginia newspaper's delay in report of attack on reporters (by 30 teens)

[RZM]

4. Well, that's an interesting and valuable perspective

The problem there is that if it's a RW rag, they would have even less reason to not report the story.

Maybe what we're seeing here is the disconnect between the RW establishment and actual people. Though DU would never admit it, the RW establishment is almost as PC as the LW establishment is (witness the recent drama over at NRO).

Having also worked as a journalist, I can definitely say that one type of story journalists never avoid is a story about other journalists. So everything here seems to be working for reporting on this incident as it happened. It was newsworthy from the start (random beating with attackers vastly outnumbering victims), and it involved Pilot personnel. As RWers they should (theoretically) be less constrained by racial sensitivities and be inclined to report the story.

Yet they still waited for almost three weeks. I can't account for that without bringing up PC. I guess my argument, given your insight, is that the right isn't much less constrained than the left here. Both sides pay homage to our public culture, which is very touchy about race.

I could be wrong, but I don't know. This whole thing is rather odd.