You're pretty much arguing for racism to slide. With this same ridiculous reasoning, someone could argue they shouldn't report the wrongdoings of anyone because it gives them publicity or because they don't report the wrongdoings of "that" group. Ridiculous. Racism is a hot topic BECAUSE it is a serious thing. @Bold, At what point do you consider blacks aren't some monolithic group? I don't know what instance you're referring to, but it isn't true to many nor this one.
You misunderstand.
Racism is truly an issue. The issue is how the media handles it. The bias of it. That's why. Go work for companies that write these articles or just talk to them. They are normal people who were employed that never fully embrace what they do yet they do so as that it their livelihood.
We, the media, do not care about what our articles entail. As long as our content is within the set parameters of what we are expected of, all we have to do is meet the deadline.
If that confuses you then an analogy. If I were to work on a black newsprint, I'd take whatever content I could find that is new and in regards to black people and make the content from there. If I were to find a success story of a black person vs a black person "victimized" I'd definitely cover the latter and make sure to paint it with as much bias as possible.
News/media are biased AF. Learn this. We no longer care. We care about our jobs and meeting deadlines.
Because from what I've seen, and what people know but don't want to say it out loud on the risk of sounding racist, the black community has self-inflicted racism.
If you think african-american culture is about being a gangsta, you're part of the problem. To answer your @bold statement, no I do not see them as a monolithic group.
I often discern them into regular people vs degenerates. I will openly and happily call a black degenerate nigga just so people will get used to the idea that blacks and niggas aren't the same.
I hate seeing blacks treated this way but I also hate how whites are always being demonized.