They’ve become routine. In Kentucky a 15-year-old boy shot a dozen classmates earlier this week, killing two of them. According to the New York Times, this was the 11th school shooting of the year. That’s 11 in 23 days, almost one every two days on average.
CNN gave the shooting in Kentucky 10 minutes, 2 seconds. Fox gave it 5 minutes. MSNBC gave it 1 minute, 1 second.
Perhaps we would care more about these shootings if they were actually covered. It isn’t that we are getting “fake news.” The problem is that we aren’t getting anything but repetition about tweets and Mueller and the shutdown, and almost nothing about Kurds or Palestinians, trade wars, environmental degradation, and about 50 other issues I could mention.
For some reason it is accepted as just another shooting. Our law makers do not see to care. If the NRA money wasn't there they perhaps would do something.
ReplyDeleteI agree. Unfortunately, the NRA buys them off.
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