I just read about the mall shooting in Nairobi. Almost 40 people killed in what is being called a terrorist attack.
I am getting so sick of the callous destruction of human life.
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/3967042
The footage and photos from the attack in the slideshow at the end of the article are pretty chilling.
I bet some white people got shot, and that’s the only reason it even made their local news.
Yes, I’m serious.
Once again, I believe that if Sandy Hook had been an inner-city school, that story would have immediately vanished from the news wires and would only be discussed nowadays on racist blogs.
I’ve heard more than once from people who lived there at the time that if Columbine had happened at one of the mostly black or Hispanic high schools in the Denver area, it wouldn’t have made the local news at all. :eek:
If people say that, they are silly or worse. I would appreciate if someone could list all the school shootings that killed more than 5 people but weren’t covered by even local news because they occurred in predominantly minority schools.
This doesn’t meet your qualifications, but it’s been largely forgotten.
Just doing a quick search, it looks like it received pretty heavy coverage.
You are wrong. The press only cares about one color. Green. Certain stories fit into their narrative and help there bottom line. A school shooting in any neighborhood would be huge news because it plays on our worst fears.
Also largely forgotten and lily white ,the West Nickel Minesshooting. The media hits a story hard then moves on to another.
Comparing the coverage of this to the DC Naval Yard shooting and similar events seems misplaced. There’s a difference between “man starts killing as many random strangers as possible,” and “criminal with bad aim tries to shoot other criminal.” There’s a lot of gun crime in the US, and a lot of that crime results in innocent bystanders being caught in the crossfire. At this point, it’s part of the background noise of everyday life. Spree killers are much, much rarer, and as such, more “newsworthy.” Which is unfortunate, because, as Loach correctly pointed out, gang violence and street crime is actually a much more important issue, and far more likely to affect the average American, than random lunatics shooting up movie theaters.
The biggest reason is that the shooter was killed: no manhunt, no trials, no convictions. The shooter is dead.
So now it’s a bunch of funerals, a couple memorials and the ongoing ‘guns & society’ debate. Many of the families of victims have requested no media coverage and all but the slimiest media outlets are respecting that.
Thus the shorter news cycle.
Speak for yourself.
Why? It is largely forgotten in the media. Which is what we are talking about. This has nothing to do with personal experiences. The most memorable death I have is my father’s heart attack. And that wasn’t reported in the media at all.
The media? The news media? What kind of news coverage do you imagine is possible for any spree killing, several years after the fact with no living perpetrator? The fact that an event’s news coverage has run its course is not well described as the event being “forgotten,” to say the least.
I think you participating in a parallel thread. I brought that up as a forgotten by the media event to counter the claim that Red Lake Massacre was forgotten because it was on an Indian Reservation and not about white people. My comment had nothing to do with if those involved had forgotten. Of course they haven’t.
Does anyone else wonder why a three year old child was not home in bed at the time of the shooting? Where was the mother/father? Has CPS been called in? There are many unanswered questions in this case.
Perhaps the parents could not afford a baby sitter.
None of the shootings mentioned were “forgotten by the media.” It doesn’t make sense to even talk about the concept, unless coverage is dropped during a still-newsworthy period.