We now have the numbers to support “Coulter’s Law.”
As the Tampa Free Press reported last month, conservative pundit Ann Coulter appeared on Bill Maher’s HBO show and offered an observation about the fatal shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory parade. One woman, a mother of two, was killed.
Contrary to Maher’s repeated contention that the identity of the shooters was uncertain at the time, Coulter insisted that the public could make an educated guess about that based on the media’s reaction and reporting.
“If it were a white man shooting, we’d know,” said Coulter. And it turned out that the suspects were black.
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Some social media users noted that Coulter began floating her theory of the mainstream media covering up such news when the suspects did not fit their anti-white narrative almost a decade ago.
On Wednesday, in the wake of the arrests of suspects in a Philadelphia school bus stop shooting that injured eight children, PJ Media columnist Kevin Downey Jr. highlighted an analysis on X that proved Coulter’s Law.
Downey cited the work of an X account called “Datahazard,” which on Tuesday refreshed a 2022 story by the Washington Free Beacon about how the legacy media protect the IDs of accused murderers who are minorities.
According to the original piece, the Free Beacon analyzed almost 1,100 articles written about murder cases by six major papers between 2019 and 2021. Those papers included the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, San Francisco Chronicle, and Minneapolis Star-Tribune.
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The Free Beacon simply looked at where in the articles that those outlets mentioned the criminals’ race, if they did so at all.
As Datahazard noted, the Free Beacon found that if the shooter was white, 32% of those articles reported that within the first 10% of the story. That number jumped to 68% of the time when looking at the first 20% of a story.
On the other hand, if the suspect was black, that was revealed just 6% of the time in the first one-tenth of the story, and another 6% in the second-tenth – or a total of just 12% of the time within the first 20% of a story.
Also on Tuesday, a second X account, “The Rabbit Hole,” added of the Free Beacon’s work: “The likelihood of a newspaper mentioning a murderer’s race depends on the murderer’s race.”
Quoting the Free Beacon, the account added, “White offenders’ race was mentioned in roughly 1 out of every 4 articles, compared with 1 in 17 articles about a black offender and 1 in 33 articles about a Hispanic offender.”
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In response to The Rabbit Hole, X owner Elon Musk added, “So, yeah, the legacy media is super racist.”
In his column, Downey noted readers could be forgiven for not recalling the Philadelphia shooting because of the media’s response.
He also pointed out the suspects’ multiple attempted murder and firearms charges, including one for altering a semi-automatic Glock pistol to make it fire fully automatic.
“This is a nightmare scenario for thug-loving Marxists on the left,” Downey wrote.
“As much as they press the myths that rural America is crawling with drooling peckerwoods armed with Terminator-like Gatling blasters, eager to perforate minorities, the evidence suggests something quite different. Black men are massacring black men in terrifying numbers, and at least one had a machine gun.”
“The Philly bus stop mass shooting that dominated the headline for a micro-minute disappeared when it was apparent that a disgruntled racist white guy did not ventilate those black teens,” he added. “The apparatchiks in the Democrat fake news industry are very particular about which shootings will remain in the headlines.”
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