Racism - A Continuing Problem in America

So how does this story become relevant in the first place. Like anything else, the story of this event quickly rose to national attention through the networking and distribution of media and news outlets. This shows that most of the information we receive on social events comes from articles and reports of the media. That means that the news first goes through a filter and word choosing of a media staff who can ultimately determine a readers take on a story as it is being portrayed to the likeness of a news companies staffing. .
             The Michael Brown case was almost immediately taken from the context of cop versus suspect to black suspect versus white cop because that was the way that media distributed it to the populous of America. In a New York Times article, the news company describes the event as Michael Brown, an unarmed black teenager, was shot and killed on Aug. 9, by Darren Wilson, a white police officer, in Ferguson, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis. The shooting prompted protests that roiled the area for weeks. On Nov. 24, the St. Louis County prosecutor announced that a grand jury decided not to indict Mr. Wilson. The announcement set off another wave of protests. (New York Times) The depiction of Michael Brown and Officer Wilson highlights, and gives strong significance to, their racial differences in this description of the occurrence by the New York Times. The delivery of this description almost immediately infers that the reason that Michael Brown was killed was because he was a black man being pursued by a white man. Now all of a sudden, instead of this becoming a matter of police governing, or misgoverning (depending on how one personally views the verdicts outcome), the media delivers breaking news to the populous with an immediate manipulation of words creating a racial feud. Media is historically known as the peoples informant, and historically media has been known to portray things in a style that attracts more readers attention and stirs up more peoples reactions because with more news becomes more business.