Biased media much?
From Newsbusters:
Press Ignores Prominent Trump-Bashing Utah Immigration Activist’s Rape Arrest
Utah-based Hispanic activist Tony Yapias has drawn a fairly high level of national attention during the past six years.
Most recently, Yapias’s name came up in coverage of a clash between “protesters” and supporters of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in Salt Lake City in March. A search on his full name at the New York Times returns eight in-house items between 2010 and 2014. He has been variously described as “director of an immigration advocacy group,” “a longtime Latino leader in Utah,” and as “an activist with political interests.” A week ago, Mr. Yapias picked up another tag: accused rapist. I haven’t been able to locate any nationally distributed establishment media coverage of Yapias’s arrest.
There isn’t a chance in Hades that conservative or anti-illegal immigration activist in the same circumstances would be similarly ignored. You don’t even have to commit a crime to become a press-driven national object of scorn, as Elizabeth Lauten learned in 2014 when she posted an opinion on Facebook that the President’s daughters need to “try showing a little class” — and was hounded into resigning her Capitol Hill staff position.
Here are portions of a story on Yapias’s arrest found at the website of TV and radio station KSL in Salt Lake City. Note that the station’s reference to the victim’s immigration status was predictably indirect:
Tony Yapias, prominent activist for Latino community in Utah, charged with rape
Tony Yapias, a prominent activist for the Latino community in Utah, was charged Monday with raping a woman who police say had recently ended her romantic relationship with him.
In addition to the first-degree felony rape charge, Yapias was charged in 3rd District Court with tampering with evidence, a class A misdemeanor.
Yapias, 50, of Salt Lake City, is the director of Proyecto Latino de Utah, an advocacy organization for Latinos in the state. He was arrested Monday and booked into the Salt Lake County Jail on $250,000 bail. He is formally identified in court documents as Adolfo Tony Yapias-Delgado.
