Harvard Law Review vs. Reality

Harvard Law Review vs. Reality: A reader writes:

This article, "Trojan Horses of Race" by Jerry Kang of UCLA, is in the new Harvard Law Review. (118 Harv. L. Rev. 1489 (2005)).

I thought you might be interested in is thesis, which is that (1) the FCC deregulated media ownership rules in order to increase the availability of local news; (2) local news shows a lot of stories about violent crime committed by racial minorities; (3) this causes whites to be _irrationally_ afraid of racial minorities; and (4) therefore, there is too much local news and the FCC should use a different standard in evaluating whether to relax ownership rules.

Extraordinary, no?

Rather than the federal government, in effect, censoring local television news to prevent Americans from understanding the truth about the crime problem, wouldn't a better win-win solution for all concerned be for blacks and Hispanics to stop committing more crimes than Asians and whites?

That reminds me of a major problem in Britain that complements the lack of federalism, and both together contribute to its terrible crime rate. The press is overwhelmingly concentrated in London and focuses on more glamorous national and international issues rather than on mundane local problems like crime. The Guardian, for example, used to be the Manchester Guardian, but that was a long time ago. Crime is left for the sensationalistic tabloids, and thus the whole issue is considered declasse. You can see the same bias at work with the Los Angeles Times, which has pretences to being a national newspapers, so it studiously ignores the crime problems caused by illegal immigration in Los Angeles. Fortunately, there are local newspapers like the LA Daily News that crusade for a better life for Los Angelenos, and local radio programs like the John and Ken Show.

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