That good ol' MSM!
Is a murderer being put to death or are racist government officials picking on a poor black woman?
Here is the actual headline:
Texas Black Woman Scheduled for Execution
Hmmm, is that the most appropriate headline or the most sensational one?
Here's some evidence that might help you figure that out:
Prosecutors called Newton's appeals meritless, noting that a second gun never was recovered, that repeated ballistics tests confirmed the gun she hid was the murder weapon, and that any destruction of evidence was not improper.
"The unbroken chain of custody directly links Newton to the murder weapon," the Texas Attorney General's Office said in its filing to the Supreme Court.
Newton, accompanied by a cousin, found the bodies April 7, 1987. Her husband had been shot in the head, the two children in the chest, all with a .25-caliber pistol.
Three weeks before the slayings, Newton took out $50,000 life insurance policies on herself, her husband and her daughter. She named herself as beneficiary and said she signed her husband's name to prevent him from discovering she had set aside money to pay for the premiums.
Prosecutors said the insurance payoff was the motive for the slayings.
That, of course, appears at the very end of the article, almost as an afterthought.
Nah, there's no bias in the MSM! This kind of thing doesn't polarize America and harm race relations at all....
Here is the actual headline:
Texas Black Woman Scheduled for Execution
Hmmm, is that the most appropriate headline or the most sensational one?
Here's some evidence that might help you figure that out:
Prosecutors called Newton's appeals meritless, noting that a second gun never was recovered, that repeated ballistics tests confirmed the gun she hid was the murder weapon, and that any destruction of evidence was not improper.
"The unbroken chain of custody directly links Newton to the murder weapon," the Texas Attorney General's Office said in its filing to the Supreme Court.
Newton, accompanied by a cousin, found the bodies April 7, 1987. Her husband had been shot in the head, the two children in the chest, all with a .25-caliber pistol.
Three weeks before the slayings, Newton took out $50,000 life insurance policies on herself, her husband and her daughter. She named herself as beneficiary and said she signed her husband's name to prevent him from discovering she had set aside money to pay for the premiums.
Prosecutors said the insurance payoff was the motive for the slayings.
That, of course, appears at the very end of the article, almost as an afterthought.
Nah, there's no bias in the MSM! This kind of thing doesn't polarize America and harm race relations at all....