Posts Tagged ‘race’

Media Manipulation of Religion and Race

Friday, June 20th, 2008

I recently discussed an incident where a Mormon couple accidentally left their child to die in a hot car for 17 hours.

Did you notice that I mentioned their religion?

Why do writers of such stories feel the need to attach a person’s religion to a tragedy in order to somehow make it seem more poignant? We hear it all the time.

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