Media Myths About the Jena 6

Christian Science Monitor by Craig Franklin | Oct. 24, 2007 (Special Report)

A local journalist tells the story you haven't heard.

By now, almost everyone in America has heard of Jena, La., because they've all heard the story of the "Jena 6." White students hanging nooses barely punished, a schoolyard fight, excessive punishment for the six black attackers, racist local officials, public outrage and protests - the outside media made sure everyone knew the basics.

There's just one problem: The media got most of the basics wrong. In fact, I have never before witnessed such a ... Full Story »

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by Francis Scalzi - Oct. 1, 2008

The story reads as extremely opinionated and offers no independent evidence that the author's views and interpretations are any less erroneous than the presumed myths he decries. For example, to claim that hanging a noose near a racially mixed school is not a prevocative racial gesture, given the well known and much publicised racial history in Louisiana and its recent situation in New Orleans, is at least a very naive view of the motives of the noose hangers, or worse, is biased and provocative in itself.