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Originally Posted by Newman
How bogus! Do you suppose for one minute that had this shooting occurred at Howard University, it wouldn't generate the attention of the media to the extent it has now?
Yes Chan there is a difference between thugs killing thugs and thousands of university students being terrorized by a gunman whose actions were likely never contemplated by millions of students, parents and families.
The media is drawn to this because it touches a raw nerve. It lets us know that the mass shooting like this could have happened at just about any university. And most of America knows and loves someone who attends such a unversity or has a child attending a university; or they attended a university themselves. THEY CAN RELATE TO IT.
Most of America can't relate to gangs killing gangs. They can't relate to children having children and communities that glamorize gangsters and rap.
Most probably feel that they would do whatever they had to do to not live in such a place where killing is normal and feel helpless and hopeless about those who don't move out of such neighborhoods (whatever it takes).
And so Chan the media just might make terror and mass murder at a universtiy the headline news today instead of putting the picture of another dead drug dealer on the front page. Such is life in a free market economy.  |
Great post, Newman...you said in one post what I've been trying to say all afternoon!!
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