We’ve detailed WorldNetDaily’s massive race-baiting effort by hyping alleged incidents of violence by “mobs” of blacks. The latest effort, a July 11 article by race-baiting expert Colin Flaherty repeating an unsubstantiated claim that “99.9 percent” of defendants in “murders, rapes, robberies and home invasions” in one city were “Afro-American,” adds for the first time an editor’s note explaining said race-baiting:
Editor’s note: Colin Flaherty has done more reporting than any other journalist on what appears to be a nationwide trend of skyrocketing black-on-white crime, violence and abuse. WND features these reports to counterbalance the virtual blackout by the rest of the media due to their concerns that reporting such incidents would be inflammatory or even racist. WND considers it racist not to report racial abuse solely because of the skin color of the perpetrators or victims.
But isn’t it racist to report only violence committed by blacks, as WND is doing? WND doesn’t seem to want to answer that question. It’s more happy to pretend it’s offering “balance” when WND has never practiced such balance on its own website.
Note also WND’s weasel words claiming that there “appears to be a nationwide trend of skyrocketing black-on-white crime, violence and abuse.” Not that there actually is one — WND is clearly interested only in appearance, not fact.
Indeed, WND is a tad defensive about its race-baiting. Responding to ConWebWatch’s highlighting of a recent Flaherty piece, WND tweeted: “Reporting facts is not ‘race-baiting’ Chicago is a war zone right now. So is Baltimore.”
WND seems to think that reporting “facts” is a sufficient defense for its race-baiting. But it has never claimed that it reports all the facts — and it’s there the problem resides.