Katie Couric, STFU

April 11, 2003

Katie Couric, STFU

Can someone tell me what the damn hell Katie Couric meant by this? The tragedy was magnified by her background??

Bias in Today Show's Central Park Jogger Interview?
....the racial aspect of the jogger case was barely mentioned in the hourlong report. The tale of an upper-middle-class white woman attacked by a roving band of black kids played into the modern urban narrative of fear. The guilt of the defendants was taken as fact by the newspapers (sample headline: "Teenage Wolfpack Beats and Rapes Wall Street Exec").

It is, sadly, always a story when poor black men attack a rich white woman - - and not so much a story when rich white men attack a poor black woman. It's even less of a story when a husband attacks a wife, even though some of those batterings result in injuries as severe as those suffered by Trisha Meili.

Indeed, the NBC piece went out of its way to confirm that worldview. White people were shown in contemporary interviews, flatteringly lit, sitting in comfortable chairs. Black people were shown in black-and-white news footage, jostling or yelling or, in one egregious example, confessing to a crime that, it turns out, the confessor did not commit.

Even worse: Katie Couric said the tragedy of the Central Park Jogger was "magnified by her background." Shot of the facade of an Ivy League college, shot of the pricey apartment building where Meili lived.

So successful white woman Katie Couric said that the plight of successful white woman Trisha Meili was "magnified" by her circumstances. Had she been poorer, had she attended a state college in the Midwest or gotten her GED in an adult school, the crime would not have been as great. Had she been black, presumably Couric would have said the crime was "minimized by her background."

Enough rant. You get the point. Shudder.

Posted by jsmooth995 at April 11, 2003 05:38 PM

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why is she still even talking about the central park jogger? not that it wasn't a bad thing, but we have already done all the racialized reporting around it & the critique of the racialized reporting. maybe katie just wasn't paying attention back then. or, hey, the tragedy of the black-man-kills-white-woman story is always good for some new (distraction) press, right?

ugh.

Posted by: dcfroglet at April 11, 2003 06:24 PM

I've been thinking for the last few days, how America seems to be taking some steps backward in so many ways. I feel like we have to hunker down and prepare for some tough times. It's the age of the hypocritical bullies. It could make McCarthyism look like nursery school.

The piece you reference is an example. Sweet-spoken viciousness. Listening to NPR's melodically-modulated and clearly opinionated tones, seems the same.

The cycle/phase of the haves even trying to appear righteous-minded seem to be over, for a while.

The only comfort is its their fear of a different way of doing things that's behind such blatant and oppressive selfishness.

I hope I have the energy to FIGHT THE POWER.

Posted by: muzer at April 11, 2003 06:41 PM

watsup dcfroglet.. I suppose they did this feature because the victim, Patricia Mieli is making the rounds to promote the new book she has out, about her recovery from the incident.

Posted by: jay smooth at April 11, 2003 06:44 PM

What was most problematic to me in the piece was the way they re-indicted the young men. Patricia Mieli's story is an incredible story but it shouldn't be told at the expense of the newfound justice for those 5 boys now men.

And, from a journalist's point of view, you kind of have to give the race aspects of the aftermath of the crime equal billing. Because Mieli's personal tale is being told more than 10 years after the fact, you have to put all that happened afterwards in it's proper context.

You just have to. But NBC has gotten good at making these commercials for products seem like news events. They've done it with Harry Potter as well.

Posted by: Jason at April 11, 2003 07:07 PM

Fuck the media, bitch ass mutha fuckers! its called yellow journalisim,she wrote a book about that shit? what? fuck her too, I defent my country and do a job that is not only looked down upon, but when people spit on you cause you make the decision to risk your life for what they take for granted,and blindly protest their own freedom, and I dont write a boot playin on peoples sympathy, I keep ma damn head up and carry on doing what others blindly shun,15 marines die in combat defending americas freedom and the broad cast last 4 1/2 mins but god forbid a faggot assed reporter gets killed knowing he is not supposed to be there and only in the way and yet theres a half hour special on that shit, what ever,
-End of Rant.
Fatal

Posted by: Fatal at April 12, 2003 12:15 AM

she wrote a book about that shit? what? fuck her too

yes, how terrible of her. she should have just laid down and died, rather than recovering and writing about it.

Posted by: drapetomaniac at April 12, 2003 07:49 AM

Hey muzer..i totally agree with you. This country has been steadily moving backwards since i don't know when. I was born in the 70s so i think i noticed it the most in the transition from the 80s to the 90s...and now in the 2000s its even worse.

We just all gotta keep fighting and striving to keep bringing the truth to light...us free-thinking people are "soldiers" of sorts. So we can't give up

Posted by: Damali at April 12, 2003 10:52 AM

Never surrender in search of the truth,and those
covering news stories at the expense of Peoples
Of Color the fraudulent must be shut down.
Katie Couric should shut the fuck up,forever!!!

Posted by: Deewarjohn at April 12, 2003 02:59 PM

Yeah, I think America started to go backward starting around Reagan era... I believe that's when separation between poor vs rich started to creep up. I'm just tired of people bitchin' about this country when we all had our chances to vote in better cadidates for government offices. I think we all should take current situation as a harsh lesson not to make same mistake again on next elections. Also I'm tired of these medias stereotyping minorities and poor. I think it is sick if they did it intentionally, but it's far worse if they did it unintentinally because that means they really believe what they say. In any case she needs to shut the hell up. Also I'm glad what's her name recovered and all, but I really don't like these people capitalizing on these incidents. Too many people are making money off these type of incidents. And those TVs and publishers, they all should back off with these TV deals and book deals... I hope they stop praying on these unfortunate incidents and people involved...

Posted by: DJ Musashi at April 14, 2003 12:22 PM

In response to Fatal's April 12th comments on Ms. Meili's self promotion: She is donating her proceeds from the book to The Achilles Track Club, Gaylord Hospital and the Mount Sinai Sexual Assault and Violence Intervention Program.

Oh yeah, grow up.

Posted by: Joanna at April 28, 2003 03:41 PM

In response to the whole white-woman/black-man thing I feel I have to also vent..Im of Latin descent, grew up in the so-called "hood" (Allapattah/Wynwood in Miami, FL) and bettered myself..my girlfriend is Asian, so I feel that I am not racist..However what sets my blood boiling and justifies the action of the state towards brothers is when they disrepect a couple..It seems that everytime a brother sees a woman, he acts like hes never been around a punani..Even though they see the ring on her fingers brothers start checking her out and one even purposefully rubbed against her in the supermarket...Add to that the constant pimp-ho lyrics, lyrics glorifying drug use, etc in hip-hop..I can understand and even support the trigger-happy cop low on his quota who said that a brother 'fit the description', or the store security guard who follows the brother more closely in the store, or the white couple who clutches their purse more tightly or locks the car door when a brother approaches..You get the point..I was born in the ghetto, kept my nose in the books, never once did a joint and now Im a professional..I moved out of course..But the point is, IF BLACK MEN DONT WANT TO BE TREATED LIKE A CRIMINAL, STOP ACTING ONE OR GLORIFYING THOSE WHO ARE CRIMINALS.

Posted by: Sergio at November 13, 2003 11:12 AM

I was totally wrong. Just because someone listens to Hip-Hop music doesn't mean they should have their rights trambled on. All people are entitled to fair treatment under the law. Oh and Latino men are just as aggressive has black men so I should not have singled out black men. That is a stereotype. I was too afraid to say something to those guys that touched my girl at the time so I decided to take it out on others on a forum. Man I am a dumb a ss. I am sorry thank you for putting up with me.

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