From: word_chemist@hotmail.com   
      
   "P.S.Burton"  wrote in message   
   news:1138620727.676963.180270@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...   
   > I remember hearing and reading about all 3 of those cases *a lot* at   
   > the time. The bus one was particularly shocking because no-one did   
   > anything to stop the killer, even to the extent of speaking up.   
   >   
   > one reason (ONE mark you) that Walker's death had more coverage was   
   > because it was spectacularly violent - they stuck an ice axe in his   
   > head. I know we're talking shades of grey when it comes to the level of   
   > violence involved in a muder, but an axe beats a knife hands down for   
   > shock value. Another reason was that one of his killers was the brother   
   > of a very famous premiership footballer.   
   >   
      
   The reason the case was handled as it was, was because of the McPherson   
   Report and the fact that BBC is biased in the way that Liddle - former top   
   kiddy in BBC current affairs - says it is.   
      
   When Whelan was murdered the first BBC reports were short and sweet and like   
   all black on white crimes, played down. When Anthony Walker's foul murder   
   occurred within half an hour of it, the BBC reported it -via the police - as   
   a racist murder - I saw the first bulletin. The whole thing took off from   
   there. 'White killers', 'racism', like a copy of the Morning Star on TV and   
   all of it unsubstatiated at that point and questionably so later. This is   
   the fault of the McPherson Report, a reality-distorting bit of Marxoid   
   pandering.   
      
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