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On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 05:15:01 -0700, somebody wrote:
> "Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote in message
> news:47b61208$1@news.povray.org...
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>> I don't know that there is any more or less than there used to be, but
>> there certainly is more media coverage of these terrible events.
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> True. There are, what, 17000 murders per year in USA, which means ~47
> people got murdered the day the shooting happened, but because it's a
> school, it makes the headline news. The other 42 don't.
Yup.
> objectively. *Shootings* are the problem. But school shootings get an
> inordinate amount of media attention.
No disagreement here.
> Same thing happens in all kinds of media coverage. How many people go
> missing in USA per year? But if one white, wealthy, attractive, young
> woman goes missing, it busies the headlines for weeks and months.
Yes, and that drives me out of my mind. While I'm sure glad Elizabeth
Smart got home safely, there was nothing else in the news here in Utah
for *months*.
> We waste way too much time and effort with the inconsequential and miss
> the forest for the trees.
This is very true.
Jim
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