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From: LindyBill4/17/2007 3:33:00 PM
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Hey, I have a Hotel full of South Koreans next to me. Should I worry about incoming?

Asian Journalist Group: Don't Mention VT Shooter's Ethnicity
In Journalistic Issues

Isn't there something a tad, I dunno, hypocritical about a group of journalists who associate with each other on the basis of race and ethnicity issuing an edict to fellow journalists to ignore the race and ethnicity of the Virginia Tech shooter, Cho Seung-Hui?:

"Like the rest of the nation, we at the Asian American Journalists
Association (AAJA) are stunned at the news of today's shooting at
Virginia Tech. Our thoughts are with the victims and their families and
friends as they cope with this horrific incident.

As coverage of
the Virginia Tech shooting continues to unfold, AAJA urges all media to
avoid using racial identifiers unless there is a compelling or germane
reason. There is no evidence at this early point that the race or
ethnicity of the suspected gunman has anything to do with the incident,
and to include such mention serves only to unfairly portray an entire
people.

The effect of mentioning race can be powerfully harmful.
It can subject people to unfair treatment based simply on skin color
and heritage.

We further remind members of the media that the
standards of news reporting should be universal and applied equally no
matter the platform or medium, including blogs." newsbusters.org
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