That was then, and this is now: such stories, when they are printed at all, don’t say ‘A 21-tear-old black male’ but just a ’21-year-old male’ was killed. To identify the victim by race would be to, as the Sacramento Bee once said about publishing mugshots, “perpetuat(es) stereotypes about who commits crime in our community.”
Translation: to the publisher and editors of the Inquirer, telling the truth is racist! To Lisa Hughes and Gabriel Escobar and, apparently, to much of the newsroom, to be ‘anti-racist’ is to censor the news, to not tell Philadelphians and the other subscribers to the newspaper a truth that they already know, but a truth that the #woke[1] just can’t handle. How is that journalism rather than journolism?
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If I had a billion dollars… I would buy The Philadelphia Inquirer… and re-establish it as a news organization that told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. That’s what the city sorely needs.
In telling the truth about its history, The Philadelphia Inquirer tells us that they will no longer tell the truth in the news
by Dana Pico
It began on Tuesday, February 15th, with the huge headline on The Philadelphia Inquirer’s website, “Black City. White paper. The summer of 2020 forced a reckoning for the country, Philadelphia, and its newspaper. But after perpetuating inequality for generations, can The Inquirer really become an anti-racist institution?”
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“Improve (their) journalism”? According to the Philadelphia Police Department, two more people were murdered in the City of Brotherly Love on Wednesday, but there isn’t a single story about either killing on the newspaper’s website main page, or its Crime & Justice page. As we noted last month, the concept of “anti-racism” means, as far as the Inquirer’s journolism is concerned, to censor the news when the news could be seen as reflecting poorly on minority communities….
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…let’s tell the truth here: everyone already knows that the vast majority of homicides in Philadelphia are the killings of black people by other black people. Inquirer columnist Helen Ubiñas, wrote, in December of 2020, “What do you know about the Philadelphians killed by guns this year?
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If I had a billion dollars, I would do what Jeff Bezos did when he bought The Washington Post: I would buy The Philadelphia Inquirer — and no, it wouldn’t cost a billion dollars, probably not even $50 million — and re-establish it as a news organization that told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. That’s what the city sorely needs.
PA Fraternal Order of Police Lodge No. 38 