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Sunday, April 15, 2018

KITTY GENOVESE JOSHUA BELL NYT MARTIN GANSBERG WASHINGTON POST GENE WEINGARTEN

Similar cynical media manipulation of social themes, different day.

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See: Wikipedia, Murder of Kitty Genovese, (Paul Starr, The Creation of the Media, eg p. 133 James Gordon Bennett's Helen Jewett Murder Story)

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One might also note that there are perhaps similar ethnic subtexts to each story (not the Jewett Story, which is about sensationalistic fictionalization, and other things, in Starr's account): that gentile multiculturalist culture is soulless, shallow, heartless, and artless, by contrast with Jewish community norms. Merely the title of the Bell piece itself suggests what I am suggesting. 

Let's also put it this way: the Genovese piece was not criticizing the ethos of the liberal New York Jewish community, but rather that of the various non Jewish ethnic communities of greater New York.

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