Dozens brawl outside a McDonalds in SJ

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Originally Posted by 33girl

I agree. Why is this national news?

Is it? I watched CNN today and check about 4 new sites every day and GC is the only place I've seen this story. The article linked is from a CBS affiliate out of San Fran.

Originally Posted by christiangirl

Well, a fight at McDonald's isn't a big deal but one involving over 100 people is. And is this national news? That clip was from a local station, I thought (I didn't look that closely though).

My thoughts as well. San Jose is in the local area of San Fran so I would hope that it would make the news there. And yes, if it really did look like a riot going on in the streets, that is newsworthy to locals.

Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB

We hear about these stories now because of the Internet. In years past, stories like this one were printed in the local paper and reported on by the local TV station, and that's where it ended (because it wasn't a big enough deal to warrant coverage by the big, expensive national newspapers and network TV). These days, news stories run on newspapers' and TV stations' websites, where readers/viewers copy/paste the article or URL to Facebook, Twitter and websites like this one.

I agree.

Originally Posted by KSig RC

No, I mean that this is 'news' because it caters to a certain form of mild latent racism (more likely prejudice, actually) that still exists within society at large more than in individuals.

For instance, every year there are a dozen rapes at Bonnaroo, but there's no outcry about it in media coverage. Eyes, page-views and click-throughs are drawn to certain stories, and the media covers those stories disproportionally.

So what your saying is that if this was 100 white people going crazy here San Jose and the San Francisco media outlets would have turned the other way and not have reported it? I doubt that. I also have to call BS on all the Bonnaroo rapes unless you have some source you can provide. I've never been to Bonnaroo but I've been to plenty of other huge festivals (Coachella, Lollapalooza) and I've never seen any kind of mass scale violence occur. You may be thinking of Woodstock 99, which was a hot mess and received intense media attention at the time to what happened there.