Chicago's mass shootings ignored by media

@no1marauder said
I didn't say they don't qualify as a "mass shooting"; that was somebody else.

There is no legal definition for "mass shootings" but a common one is: "if four or more people are shot or killed in a single incident, not including the shooter, that incident is categorized as a mass shooting". https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/methodology

I'm fine with that definition but still some mass shootings are more national newsworthy than others.

@metal-brain said
Which ones are more newsworthy?

@no1marauder said
Those with a high number of victims in public places.

@metal-brain said
But that makes a high number of victims in public places more likely if the news media focuses on those news stories too much. The more focus on the news coverage of mass shootings the more mass shootings result. Don't tell me you havn't noticed that. You have.

@no1marauder said
I didn't say they don't qualify as a "mass shooting"; that was somebody else.

There is no legal definition for "mass shootings" but a common one is: "if four or more people are shot or killed in a single incident, not including the shooter, that incident is categorized as a mass shooting". https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/methodology

I'm fine with that definition but still some mass shootings are more national newsworthy than others.

@metal-brain said
Which ones are more newsworthy?

@no1marauder said
No, I haven't.

I don't believe ignoring things makes them go away.

@jj-adams said
The ones where the shooter is white, obviously.
The ones where blacks/hispanics do it aren't newsworthy because it doesn't fit the hate-whitey agenda of the toxic liberal media.

@metal-brain said
But you are ignoring the intense news coverage of mass shootings that leads to more mass shootings. Ignoring that will not make the deaths increase. You are condoning more deaths. Is that because you want more deaths in the short term to prevent more long term deaths? Be honest.

@mott-the-hoople said
"I'm fine with that definition but still some mass shootings are more national newsworthy than others."

WOW, just WOW

@no1marauder said
Do you consider it an obligation to spew racist drivel in every thread you post in?

@no1marauder said
Earl (presumably quoting): I do not understand why the MSM continues to ignore the extreme violence in Chicago,
a city that seems as dangerous to be in as Mariupol, Ukraine.

The siege of Mariupol lasted about 3 months and city officials reported "about 21,000 civilians had been killed." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Mariupol

Chicago, which has a pop ...[text shortened]... one person is killed and several others injured because of a gang dispute. That's just common sense.

@earl-of-trumps said
C'mon, Marauder, it's a euphemism. And I take poetic license. thank you

@no1marauder I've told you a million times not to exaggerate.
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@EoT: You did? Are you sure you're not mixing me up with someone else?

@no1marauder didn't want the Walker-Warnock bet?
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@EoT: sure. I'll take Walker. The dude ran against 5 other hopefuls. He smoked them, took 70%.
Ol' Herschel will not be denied. Not in Georgia, anyway.

@earl-of-trumps said
Sorry that this article is behind a paywall but you can get the gist of the tone of the article

Constant Chicago Mass Shootings Ignored by Corporate Media
[i]As tragic mass shootings at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, and a medical building in Tulsa, Oklahoma, continue to dominate print, online, and television news ...[text shortened]... e.

https://www.newsmax.com/platinum/chicago-mass-shootings-corporate-media/2022/06/03/id/1072763/