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“It is particularly jarring to a black man who has just helped friends bring attention to newspaper stories and a book about actual lynchings” to see the term “high tech lynching” applied to the allegations of sexual harassment involving GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain, media critic Eric Deggans says on his St. Petersburg Times blog. In real lynchings, “black people were hung, shot, stabbed, beaten and maimed by white mobs, their body parts taken as souvenirs and their deaths made an ugly, brutal carnival.” Deggans calls out such conservatives as commentator Ann Coulter and L. Brent Bozell of the Media Research Council, and newspapers such as the Washington Times and the American Spectator, which also have headlines using the term. || Related: Politico story on Herman Cain lacked key details (ProPublica) | Media distrust may protect Cain (538/New York Times) || Earlier: Metaphors matter: How to expose the dark art of the false comparison (Poynter.org)
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