Fisherking's post brings me back to something Lemur said earlier...
Quote Originally Posted by Lemur
In part, I am reacting against the suggestion that the racial angle was completely invented out of whole cloth by the Evil Media. The media messed up many times, and got a great deal wrong, but I don't think the (false) racial narrative would have taken hold if there were not some reality people were reacting to.
The racial angle wasn't invented by the media, it was exploited by the media. In their rush for ratings, they ignored, discounted, or flat out altered the facts of the story.

They knew this was an extremely sensitive subject matter. And instead of treating it with sensitivity, they treated it with sensationalism.