Photo journalist April Saul writes for Politico about media not wanting to cover black-on-black murders including those of untargeted bystanders felled by stray bullets. Saul seems to think this is a recent phenomenon, while I have information the press has avoided such stories since at least the 1920s, probably longer.
As a youngster I knew a old fellow who, while not a sworn officer, worked with law enforcement in 1920s Los Angeles. He stated there was an average of a murder a night in "colored town," his words, not mine. These were rarely reported in the paper, he said, although the police were able to solve some of them.
Caveat: There may have been a paper published by blacks for black readers in 1920s L.A. which covered these killings. As a preteen it never occurred to me to ask about ethnic papers, which I later learned were common.
