
When a member of the journalism community is murdered, wouldn't you expect most news agencies to report it?
Well, on Thursday morning, Chauncey Bailey, the editor of the Oakland Post, was gunned down by an at that time unknown assailant.
On Friday morning, Oakland police arrested seven people at Your Black Muslim Bakery in connection with Bailey's murder.
Yet, ABC, CBS, and NBC haven't said a word about this shooting, or the connection to Your Black Muslim Bakery. Why?
Kudos go out to CNN for logging three reports on the matter Friday including this one during the 11AM EST "CNN Newsroom":
TONY HARRIS, ANCHOR: And quickly now, let's get to T.J. Holmes in the CNN NEWSROOM. T.J. is following a developing story of a raid in Oakland, California, of a bakery there.
T.J. HOLMES, CNN ANCHOR: Yes, Tony, we're getting a lot more details. Good morning to you.
A lot more now from affiliate KTVU that's doing some reporting there. But these are the pictures we were watching.
This is Your Black Muslim Bakery is the name of this place. It's a staple there in the community, been there a long time. Several locations, known for certainly some of their baked goods, but also it's a community outreach group that really has opened its doors over the years to struggling families.
So it's not just a bakery. There's more to this group.
Well, there was a raid this morning. Nineteen people now in custody, is what we know. But according to our affiliate, these 19 people are being detained, again, according to KTVU, because they believe they have connections to at least three homicides that have happened in the past month, as well as other types of various violent crimes.
Again, this is according to KTVU, our affiliate.
And so now you have these 19 people in custody, one of them being Yousef Bey IV, who is the son of the founder of Your Black Muslim Bakery.
Now, again, several municipalities have been involved in this raid, not just there in Oakland, but several around, according to the police chief there in Oakland. This was part of a yearlong investigation.
Now, again, they've been arrested, these 19, in connection with three homicides in the past month. One of them, according to KTVU, happens to be the murder we saw just yesterday of a local reporter, Chauncey Bailey. He was a long-time reporter there in the Bay area, was the editor of "The Oakland Post," was gunned down in the middle of the street yesterday by masked gunmen. According to KTVU, he was actually work on a story that had to do with Your Black Muslim Bakery.
So, these are the reports we're getting now from affiliate KTVU, getting a lot more details about this raid. We're trying to figure out why and what locations, but there were four locations in addition to Your Black Muslim Bakery. Four all together, including Your Black Muslim Bakery. But 19 people in custody in connection with some violent crimes, including three homicides in the past month. So we are getting more details. We are expecting, Tony, a 3:00 Pacific news conference. We'll hopefully get even more clarity about what exactly is going on.
But again, we saw that horrible, violent -- that murder of that "Oakland Post" editor, Chauncey Bailey, gunned down in the middle of the street by masked gunmen.
HARRIS: It's unbelievable.
HOLMES: Well, now the report is that, in fact, the story he was working on for Your Black Muslim Bakery -- he was working on a story for them -- well, it appears now that it's being reported that the people being held are being held in connection with that murder.
So a big raid here, a huge raid in the predawn hours. Nineteen people in custody right now. A lot more details to come in that press conference -- Tony.
HARRIS: T.J., thanks for the update.
Fox News' Greta Van Susteren also filed a lengthy report on this issue during Friday's "On The Record."
Yet, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, and NBC have all been mysteriously silent.
Why?
As a post script, a handyman for Your Black Muslim Bakery confessed to Bailey's shooting on Saturday. I wonder if these fine news organizations will ignore that as well.
*****Update: MRC's Brad Wilmouth informed me that NBC's "Today" show reported the Bailey shooting during the first half hour of Saturday's program. Closed caption dumps confirmed that this was a fairly comprehensive report similar to what CNN did on Friday.
We will be continuing to monitor the broadcast networks for subsequent reports, especially in the evening news programs.
*****Update II: The CBS "Evening News" and ABC's "World News Saturday" did nothing on this shooting Saturday. The caption dump for the NBC Nightly News is not yet available.
—Noel Sheppard is the Associate Editor of NewsBusters.
















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I think they are still
August 4, 2007 - 15:26 ET by botgI think they are still trying to figure out how to blame Bush for this, once they do we will hear all about it
Supreme Court, National Security, Borders, Fiscal Restraint, my litmus test for President.
Oh, too easy:
August 4, 2007 - 15:55 ET by drillanwr1) the people who hang at the Muslim Bakery are angry because of Bush's war(s) in Iraq, and A-stan
2) the government (Bush) not pouring enough federal money into this urban community
3) Bush hates black people
4) WILL be covered by the MSM when Henry Waxman and Co. open an investigation into what did Bush know and when did he know it about this shooting ...
Not to Blame
August 4, 2007 - 17:38 ET by BW222I agree that Bush had nothing to do with this or the bridge collapse. Nevertheless, the President flunks three-fourths of your litmus test (national security, borders and fiscal restraint). Had Bush been left to his own devices, he would have appointed Alberto Gonzales and Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court and gone zero for four.
BW222
BW, You actually have a
August 4, 2007 - 17:41 ET by BlondeBW,
You actually have a pretty good point on the last.
All the more reason to say....no more RINO's.
Isn't it obvious to
August 4, 2007 - 23:21 ET by mikejIsn't it obvious to everyone? Rove had this done to try and divert attention away from the Minnesota bridge collapse!!!!!
But God forbid someone
August 4, 2007 - 15:59 ET by fitzfongBut God forbid someone flushing another Koran. You can be sure that the networks will come out of the wilderness to cover that.
The MSM and the MSM (Muslim source Murders)
August 4, 2007 - 16:02 ET by Lame CherryWhat people do not realize is that the Conservative, Liberals think tanks and media have all been "invested" in by oil soaked Muslim billionaires. This is why you get this goofy legislation and absolute silence when a reporter is murdered by a Muslim terrorist attack in America.
You have to understand Bush's Muslim policy was arranged by a guy who is now in prison as they found out he was a terrorist associate. The Conservatives have the same implants working on their think tank policy which is anti American.
You have to look not further than CAIR and Muslim Brotherhood Keith Ellison in the Democrats arranging policy to the fine oil Muslim millions gearing everything that comes out of the Carter Center via Jimmy Carter.
The MSM is the same investment mob of influence. Media can not cover stories, because the Muslim billionaires and nations are so influence cemented that the word has come from on top "speak to evil, hear no evil and broadcast no evil against Muslims".
You can see how horrid this whoring of our nation has become when a reporter is slaughtered in America about to break a story and CNN has to be praised for allowing 3 segments on it.
Where are the segments exposing all the influence pedalling going on in America?
This is not to bash the Saudi or any of our allied Arab regimes. They have done a world of good for America and are funding a huge part of America when we need their assistance. But this other ilk who puts fellows into position (and it does not have to be Muslim when it is like Dinesh D'souza of India a paid for fellow at Hoover who is telling the world America is the problem) to the buying of media outlets or telling GE, Disney or whoever if you don't bridle your reporters you won't get contracts to do business in our nations.
This is a problem and only Newsbusters has seen fit to even expose it.
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they have a fellow who confessed.
August 4, 2007 - 16:44 ET by PKthe oakland police arrested every one in a 100 yard radius of the cash register of the "Muslim Bakery" (according to los angeles radio it was 29).
and lo and behold they have a "suspect". a young fellow who is called a "maintainence man" for the business.
this procedure works quite well as the senior citizens of the group don't like sitting it out in the drunk tank while the police sort out all of their various warrents and unpaid citations.
i just wonder if the young fellow who confessed was tapped on the shoulder and told to do something about the legal heat on the organization.
C
PLEASE tell me the Sarcasm Machine is in high gear
August 4, 2007 - 18:26 ET by HeikiPK-
Please tell me that that last was intended to be sarcastic, because if the comments were in earnest, well, the stock price of TinFlHt just went through the roof!
Black on Black go down
August 4, 2007 - 18:32 ET by RackieBlack on Black go down everyday/everywhere. No story here.
Just suck it up Baby G. You live with it, you die with it.
You can damn be sure had
August 4, 2007 - 17:55 ET by mlongYou can damn be sure had this Black Reporter been killed by a bunch of White Christians we would be hearing about it...Al and Jesse would be holding protests demanding "justice",Keith "Murrow"Olbermann would tell us how Bush had him killed,CNN would have special reports about how "dangerous" Christians are and so on.
*Sheehan-vs-Pelosi*
"This could get ugly"
mlong,
August 4, 2007 - 23:34 ET by Dave RI agree 300%.
However, this was a crime alledgedly committed by "peaceful" Muslims, who are apparently now a protected minority in this country, thanks to our irresponsible-to-the-point-of-being-dangerous PC government and the even worse MSM.
Help Fred defeat everybody.
You sure, Dave? About
August 4, 2007 - 23:39 ET by BlondeYou sure, Dave?
About agreeing 300 percent, I mean.
It could be 330%....or maybe even 400%.
Bonde,
August 4, 2007 - 23:49 ET by Dave RLMAO-I was using Phoney's (clearly defective) Chinese calculator.
Help Fred defeat everybody.
Sorry, Dave. I just
August 4, 2007 - 23:52 ET by BlondeSorry, Dave.
I just couldn't help myself....really...you just laid that baby out there! :)
Fox NewsWatch didn't
August 4, 2007 - 19:46 ET by kevcadFox NewsWatch didn't mention this, also. Shame.
Start each day with a smile, then get it over with. - W.C. Fields
"Muslims fear backlash"
August 4, 2007 - 19:47 ET by nkviking75If it had been covered, the story would probably go like this:
"Muslim community fears backlash, violence after arrest of Muslim suspect in brazen murder"
When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.
Cair meets Hamas
August 4, 2007 - 20:01 ET by botgHave you heard this story? Same type of thing; the same community supporting killing and the MSM is MUM.
Supreme Court, National Security, Borders, Fiscal Restraint, my litmus test for President.
This is goofy
August 4, 2007 - 20:02 ET by ThreePuttinDudeThese guys are about as muslim as anyother thug in prison. Cassius Clay, and Lew Alcinder I put in the same category. These guys are just looking for the newest cutting edge fashion statement.
Putting these guys in prison will do nothing but allow them to gain more recruits and converts against the "Man". It's long past time to quit falling into the same foolish routine. Hell we are giving them 3 hots and a cot, thats all they want.
3PD, Maybe we can turn
August 4, 2007 - 20:08 ET by Blonde3PD,
Maybe we can turn Gitmo into an offshore Federal penal institution. Let them do serious time somewhere with no familial or visiting privileges at all. They can share with their real brothers in Islam.
Can you say Pappilon?
Let them escape....presuming they know how to swim.
presuming they know how to swim
August 4, 2007 - 22:01 ET by ThreePuttinDudeHA HA HA, ya I'd love to see them try and out swim the sharks....great mental image there
Thanks
}}---> Wedge Issue
August 5, 2007 - 00:27 ET by Cool ArrowOakland police believe members of the Your Black Muslim Bakery were involved in "cleansing" the area surrounding its business of undesirables, possibly including two men shot and killed last month.
Let's just guess the ethnicity of the other two killed.
Republicans are unable to realize the incessant pandering by Democarps (aka suckerfish) to the "religion of Peace" is driving a potential wedge between them and their most exploited voting monolith.
Why this and many other hypocrisies aren't loudly and often trumpeted by Republicans is beyond me. The lack of respect Democarps have for the individual lives of Black Americans is atrocious.
Here we have what may be domestic ethnic cleansing and the MSM is eager to ignore it because it doesn't jibe with the party message.
Robin Williams of ABC's
August 5, 2007 - 00:27 ET by stratmanRobin Williams of ABC's Good Morning America had surgery for breast cancer yesterday. The event has been roundly covered on TV, print and the internet. She is doing well.
Chauncey Bailey, the editor of the Oakland Post, was murdered in cold blood and the MSM is silent. What happened to sticking up for one's own?
As far as I can tell, there are only four reasons for MSM to not be trumpeting this story:
The MSM hasn't heard about it yet. Doubful.
Mr. Bailey was not liked in the business. Maybe, but you'd think the MSM would close ranks when one of their own is brutally murdered. All for one and one for all, right?
The criminals are just too intimidating and the press fears for their lives if it is reported. Maybe locally but across country in New York the NYTimes can't pump out a paragraph on page 32 next to a Viagra advertisement?
The criminals are too sympathetic for the story to be true. This must be the reason. How could a bunch of peaceful bakers commit such a crime? The baker's dozen (plus six) will be the new Mumia Abu-Jamal. Maybe Danny Glover will protest for these new iceholes. Where's Johnny Cochran when you need him. (Yes, I know where he's at)
Thank you MSM for once again showing America what unprincipled, duplicitous, hypocritical sellouts you are.
Killing them with kindness isn't working. Time to get scrappy with the Donkeys.
}}---> Homeland insecurity
August 5, 2007 - 00:44 ET by Cool ArrowIt's a whole lot easier to downgrade a terrorist attack occurring in the Democarps' backyard down to simple murder than face the truth about such things as the JFK plot, the First WTC bombing, The Cole . . . etc.
No concerted effort here, just a few bad guys shooting the guns Republicans won't let us take away.
Move along...Nothing to see here...keep moving.
The gun killed the man. The
August 5, 2007 - 11:08 ET by danboThe gun killed the man. The gun was the murder. It went off on it's own. A poor unfortunate muslim just happened to be holding it.
Fact is. If the murder happened to be a republican, or a right winger. We'd be hearing more about this 24/7.
Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge will be shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods. Albert Einstein
Six Degrees Of Separation
August 5, 2007 - 23:28 ET by stratmanAnd now you've connected the dots back to the original perpetrator in just two degrees of separation - George Bush did it!
This is way easier than that Kevin Bacon game.
Killing them with kindness isn't working. Time to get scrappy with the Donkeys.
The Black Muslim Bakery has
August 5, 2007 - 03:05 ET by maggieqpublicThe Black Muslim Bakery has been a landmark in the East Bay since my arrival in the early ‘70’s. Last week’s murder of reporter Chauncey Bailey reminds me of the 1973 assassination of Oakland School Superintendent, Marcus Foster, by the Symbionese Liberation Army. A few months after the Foster murder, Patricia Hearst was kidnapped less than a block away from my own student apartment.
In addition to the SLA, the Black Panthers were criminally active in the 1970’s East Bay.
I don’t know why the national media are ignoring the Bailey murder, but only a brave or a foolish local reporter would be pointing an incriminating finger at the Black Muslims of the San Pablo Avenue bakery.
Do You Remember?
August 5, 2007 - 08:24 ET by TinianDo you remember the last time these guys made the national news?
A couple of years ago a gang of black muslims trashed a couple of Muslim owned convenience stores that sold alcoholic beverages. It was these guys. If I remember correctly, they got something like six months probation for their crimes.
We're committing suicide by Political Correctness.
Hey, that’s right. I
August 5, 2007 - 13:02 ET by maggieqpublicHey, that’s right. I had forgotten that little escapade… and never did know about the final sentencing.
Over the years there have been articles extolling the virtuous teachings and good works of the local Black Muslims.
Too bad taking a shotgun to silence a critic falls under the definition of “self reliance”.
Of course, those "Religion
August 5, 2007 - 05:54 ET by daveinbocaOf course, those "Religion of Peace" devotees are exempt from criticism because....well, I never got the memo, but the NYT & its pilot-fish posse [including the legacy network dinosaurs] have strict instructions that Muslims and their Dhimmi-crat underlings are exempt from criticism. Journalistic exceptionalism, or something.......
Actually, I think it has something to do with the Global War on Terror being a "bumper sticker issue," according to one foreign policy genius who happens to have the silkiest locks in American political life.
Your White Christian Bakery?
August 5, 2007 - 11:56 ET by Blogger Guy00001One thing is certain. If this bakery had been named "Your White Christian Bakery" the mainstream media would be all over it with non-stop coverage, crawlers, special theme music, and a logo.
One thing is certain
August 5, 2007 - 13:08 ET by botgIf this bakery had been named "Your White Christian Bakery"
Period. Without any crime occuring, just if it had the name it would be front page.
Supreme Court, National Security, Borders, Fiscal Restraint, my litmus test for President.
Your White Christian Bakery?
August 5, 2007 - 13:16 ET by maggieqpublicYour idea could be the basis for a great Saturday Night Live skit.