Talk:Media blackout

message: In some cases, media fails to cover a topic because its a socially unpopular subject (e.g. extreme left/right wing) such as in the case of the Kermit Gosnell abortion trial, where it was clearly unpopular in the pro-choice movement:
"Writing for The Washington Post, Melinda Henneberger responded that "we didn’t write more because the only abortion story most outlets ever cover in the news pages is every single threat or perceived threat to abortion rights. In fact, that is so fixed a view of what constitutes coverage of that issue that it’s genuinely hard, I think, for many journalists to see a story outside that paradigm as news. That’s not so much a conscious decision as a reflex, but the effect is one-sided coverage". Explaining why some of her colleagues did not report on the story, Henneberger wrote, "One colleague viewed Gosnell’s alleged atrocities as a local crime story, though I can’t think of another mass murder, with hundreds of victims, that we ever saw that way. Another said it was just too lurid, though that didn’t keep us from covering Jeffrey Dahmer, or that aspiring cannibal at the NYPD."[140] Writing for Bloomberg View, Jeffrey Goldberg said that this story "upsets a particular narrative about the reality of certain types of abortion, and that reality isn’t something some pro-choice absolutists want to discuss".
I just realized that "blackouts" can be due to forces other than mandates, etc... but realize there's no existing terminology to describe this.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hippypink (talk • contribs) 18:14, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Socially-unpopular media blackout 

message: Removed link about The Christian and Newsom murders.  There's no evidence that any "blackout" (which is a racist term) is in effect, maybe the news is just not interesting, and posting such a link here seems very racist to me.
*:"Blackout" is a racist term???  New one on me.  I thought its etymology was from covering a printed page with black ink to literally make the page black.  Or are you suggesting that any term which has "black" in it must somehow be racist?  No opinion about the murders having a news blackout.   LaughingVulcan  Laugh With Me /   Logical Entries 00:05, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: "Blackout" is racist

message: Added several fact tags for unreferenced allegations of media blackouts throughout history.   LaughingVulcan  Laugh With Me /   Logical Entries 01:09, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added Fact Tags 

message: Removed link again, not because of the Truth of it, but because no reference was cited for including it as a "See Also" example per WP:V:
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I don't want to get involved in the edit war.  If someone wants to restore it, fine and great and be my guest.  But I'd request that it be restored and not reverted (to avoid removing the other Fact requests,) and if it is restored, please add a citation demonstrating how the murder connects to a media blackout.
Thanks!
 LaughingVulcan  Laugh With Me /   Logical Entries 01:09, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom murder 

message: How can one expect a citation of a media blackout?  It is little more than asking for proof that something (in this case, a particular news organization's coverage of an event) does not exist.  If it does not exist, you cannot find evidence of it's non-existance.
167.104.7.4 (talk) 23:07, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Good point. I've taken the trouble to find sources and simply removed two citation requests that I believe were unnecessary. Freikorp (talk) 14:19, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations? 

message: I think there should be a law template on this article, since it involve actions of government officials or civil servants being the only persons capable of issuing a blackout on the media.
88.105.20.89 (talk) 10:55, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Law template 

message: This falls under "examples."  There's no need for a separate section and the title "Black on White Atrocities" is dramatic and ridiculous.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.37.172.226 (talk) 15:37, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Separate "Black on White Atrocities section 

message: There was a blatant three week media blackout due to the Copenhagen summit of 2009. Of course, I think we should include it because, we don't want people to think that wikipedia blacksout sourced and cited material, do we? 75.34.16.67 (talk) 06:53, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Get some reliable sources to cite it, then it might be considered. Tony Fox (arf!) 16:57, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why not include the climate gate in this section?  

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message: The most recent media blackout was the September 11th motorcycle ride into DC that was not covered on national t.v. or in newspapers.  108.43.192.230 (talk) 16:46, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Media black out of DC Motorcycle Ride on Sept 11th. 

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message: Wouldn't want anyone to see examples of the kinds of things that are being blacked out, would we? Ghostofnemo (talk) 01:30, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good job blacking out the list of blacked out news stories! 

message: I'm not sure what this is, really. "https://www.conchovalleyhomepage.com/news/deadly-social-media-blackout-challenge-resurfaces-more-child-deaths-reported/"  As far as I can tell, it is a spam campaign meant as smokescreen for discussion of actual media blackouts. I could be wrong.  I was hoping somebody would tell me I'm being crazy or say its possible. It probably doesn't qualify for inclusion in the article, I just wanted to see what you guys thought about it. 
2601:645:781:2960:43B:3D61:68E3:1626 (talk) 22:04, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  1 weird example that probably doesn't qualify, but maybe should be mentioned