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...Times did not apply the same standard to another highly publicized sexual assault, the rape and near fatal beating of a jogger by a mob of teenagers in Central Park two years ago. In that case, unlike the Palm Beach incident, the victim's name was available in official documents. It was published by a local weekly, broadcast on a local TV station and featured on placards of protesters who claimed that the defendants were being railroaded. Yet in dozens of stories the Times never published the jogger's name...
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...Black Thing--you just wouldn't understand. I saw that shirt this summer on a New York street, where, in the dialogue between the races, baseball bats and bullets have replaced words, where a white female jogger became an anonymous victim and where the trial of her aggressors became daily feed for flashy headlines. It was a summer when judges replaced parents, dishing out punishment to teens too young to even drive...
...York, protestors at the Central Park jogger trial followed Sharpton's lead and heckled the gang rape victim by calling her "slut" and "liar." Many prominent Black leaders--including some from the local NAACP--complained about the disproportionate media attention paid to the jogger, who is white. Only in the wake of public outrage did they denounce the savagery and lawlessness of the crime...
Like the brutal rape of the Central Park jogger and the murder of Yusuf Hawkins in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn last year, Watkins' death quickly assumed a larger symbolic meaning. Outside the city it confirmed what most Americans already believed: New York is an exciting but dangerous place. Among New Yorkers it reinforced the spreading conviction that the city has spun out of control. A growing sense of vulnerability has been deepened by the belief that deadly violence, once mostly confined to crime-ridden ghetto neighborhoods that the police wrote off as free-fire zones, is now lashing...