By PHIL MUSHNICK August 17, 2013 Whats your sense of a big TV news story? Might this qualify?: Two teen boys lure a 12-year-old girl to their home under the guise that they want to trade bicycle parts. When the girl arrives, shes strangled to death, her body thrown in a Dumpster, her new bicycle stolen. That would qualify, no? Even if it happened in Arkansas or Michigan, wed know about it. And if it had happened around here? Yow! Both local and national news media would be all over it, yes? Well, it did happen around here, in October, in Gloucester County, NJ, a 90-minute ride from Manhattan. The victim was Autumn Pasquale. This month in court, 16-year-old Justin Robinson confessed to the murder while his year-older brother and accused accomplice, Dante, still faces murder charges. Quite a story, eh? But Ill bet you didnt even know, until now, about the murder of 12-year-old Autumn Pasquale. I watch lots of TV news, listen to lots of radio news, national and local. Not once did I see or hear anything about her murder, allegedly by two teen boys, for, good grief, her bicycle. You see, in the medias once noble, right-headed, fair-minded quest to condemn racial inequality, that quest has become corrupted by race; it has become twisted, hideously unbalanced. There is no question in my gut, heart and head that Autumn Pasquales murder became a make-it-go-away, non-story because she was white and her alleged killers are black. Autumns was both a politically incorrect murder and story, as are those that include black teens shooting to death black teens every day and night, in 20, 30 cities and towns across America. But if a white kid shoots a black kid . . . [Excerpt] Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/why_autumn_murder_wasn_news_7NyU2tQwcsmONPEUVBxGoJ Where's Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Obama on this? Oh, I forgot Autumn was a white girl.
