By Fred Jackson
March 26, 2001

(AgapePress) - Conservative groups are taking note of the lack of mainstream media coverage of the Jesse Dirkhising case in Arkansas.

Last week, 23-year-old Joshua Brown, the first of two homosexuals charged with killing 13-year-old Jesse Dirkhising, was found guilty of first-degree murder and rape. But Americans who rely on the major TV news networks probably never heard that story.

The Washington Times notes that when homosexual Matthew Shepard was murdered in Wyoming in 1998, there were no fewer than 3,000 media stories about that killing. But The Times says in the month following Dirkhising's murder, there were only 46 stories. According to the newspaper, a group of national media leaders -- specifically, The New York Times, The Washington Post, USA Today, CBS, ABC, NBC, and CNN -- had produced a combined total of zero stories through last Thursday afternoon. Conservatives say it has a lot to do with the people who work in the major newsrooms -- most of them liberals who are sympathetic to the homosexual agenda.

In addition, the nation's major homosexual groups have been strangely quiet about the killing of the Dirkhising boy. Baptist Press quotes freelance writer Dana Kelly, who noted last week that the Human Rights Campaign, which calls itself the largest gay and lesbian political organization, made no mention of the Dirkhising case on its website news section. Also, Kelly says, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, better known as GLADD, has been equally silent.

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