We had a news story here last month. A woman in an SUV had someone shoot at her as she exited the interstate. She was wounded and her daughter was in the car. Her assailant was described as "a man driving a purple car". You know how that turned out.
when the news reports just say.. "two men"..as in the mall parking garage shooting
or hit by a man as in the knockout game
or teen flash mob raids a convenience store or a clothing store or attacks people in a park or stops a car at an intersection and beats a man and woman
well an almost universal reaction generates in the reader's or listener's minds eye a standard description of the perpertrators by the lack of description given
the news media, by some reverse unintended consequence of their protectionism (protective of propping up their own fading beliefs or wishes), sends signals, right or wrong, to the masses
anyone remember the media wanting the boston marathon bombers to be white conservatives?
the news media (read the liberal news media), by edit, slant, omission, selection, bias, guile, zealotry, and twist have caused their own demise