The U.S media covers up black on white crime and over reports white or "white" on black crime.

As Con, I will be arguing against the resolution "the U.S media covers up black on white crime and over reports white or "white" on black crime." I also will show how twisted the average human being is and how he craves to watch dysfunction and violence. Human beings don't seek peace or want it but search for problems that will quench this appetite. INTRODUCTION:The media is not a collective body. The media functions just like other businesses who seek to attain and retain their consumers. If the media doesn't retain their consumers, they will have lower subscribers and/or ratings. If their ratings are insignificant to the point where the shows' and magazines' existence come into question, the employees will lose their jobs most likely. The television media outlets need to retain ratings to continue their shows. Newspapers and magazines need subscribers to continue printing their articles. How do they do this? Anomalies. Essentially, rare events that encapsulate violence are likely to gain ratings. Discussing violence tends to gain ratings. But discussing rare cases of violence tends to make the ratings shoot right up. Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, Casey Anthony, Adam Lanza, and James Holmes were all involved in rare incidents. All of these cases raised media ratings. I will just focus on the decisions of the court just to show the power of these stories that captures the public's attention.Officer Wilson not indicted by grand jury: 5.6 million people watched Fox between 8:00 PM-11:00 PM on November 24. This was only second to the midterm elections in terms of quarterly ratings.[1][1]http://www.latimes.com...Casey Anthony verdict: 5.2 million people watched HLN between 2:15 and 2:30 to watch the Casey Anthony verdict of "not guilty." This was the highest rating ever in HLN history. To put it in context, HLN's viewership increased 1,700 percent.[2][2]http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com...George Zimmerman verdict: 3.2 million people watched Fox. In total there were over 10 million viewers across the various networks.[3][3]http://www.hollywoodreporter.com...Anomalies sell, ratings go up. Therefore let it be known, anomalies gain ratings while regularities don't gain that much ratings at all. I would also state emphatically, that people with political agendas will push their agendas when these rare incidents happen due to the emotional frenzy taking place among media viewers. The ideologues have and probably will continue to push their political agendas when these rare incidents happen because it fits their narrative. For example, how some of the Mike Brown supporters were trying to make the claim that the police were "racist" due to the incident with Officer Wilson. Another example, would be how the Trayvon Martin-George Zimmerman results in people demanding the end of castle doctrine and "Stand Your Ground" laws. Another example would be how people used the New Haven incident with Adam Lanza and the Colorado Theater shooting with James Holmes as moments to push gun control. Rare incidents ultimately will cultivate fertile ground for these people with political agendas due to the frenzy surrounding these rare incidents.REBUTTAL:"Black" on "white crimes wouldn't obtain ratings because it wouldn't be a surprise to anyone. Nevertheless, "black" on "black" crimes for that matter is hardly worth discussing in the media either. Look at the most dangerous cities in America, they tend to be disproportionally majority "black" cities[4]. How would "black" on "white" crimes gain any ratings if blacks disproportionally commit crime[5]? Simply put, it wouldn't gain any ratings because it wouldn't shock anyone and no one is sent into a frenzy. People will just say: "Ok, what else is new?" [4]http://www.citiesjournal.com...[5]http://www.nationalreview.com...The media's success is based on rare and uncommon incidents and other tragedies that rarely happen. Why would people turn into the news to watch something that happens every day or is common? The media at the end of the day is a business too just like any other for profit entity. I will simply quote H.L. Mencken, the journalist who fooled America with the infamous Bathtub Hoax, "A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier." The key to popular journalism is sensationalism. It may be unethical but it is profitable. The media isn't covering anything up in relation to "black" on "white" crime. It is hardly worth covering because there is no ratings to be gained from talking about such common stories. Controversy sells, this is free market capitalism at its' finest, we give the people what they want not what they need.