ILLE:
Earlier this week, the news media was agog with the details of a prominent TV executive who beheaded his wife after an altercation in Orchard Park, NY. While it made sense to highlight this horrific crime of domestic abuse, was it really necessary to capitalize on the religion of the accused, which happened to be Islam? Indeed, before the specifics of the case were established by the courts, media headlines screamed out that he was a "Muslim" man. Here are a few notable examples:
- Yahoo News
- MSNBC
- Miami Herald
Using the same logic, if the media chose to emphasize the religious denomination of every newsworthy individual, here's an indication of how some prominent crime-news headlines of the past might have appeared...
- Senator Ted Kennedy
- Timothy McVeigh
- Bugsy Siegel
- Joseph Smith
- Dylan Bennet Klebold
- Andrea Yates
