“You
want to know why {these shootings keep happening}. This may sound
cynical, but here’s why.It’s because of the way the media reports it.
Flip on the news and watch how we treat the Batman theater shooter and
the Oregon mall shooter like celebrities. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris
are household names, but do you know the name of a single victim of
Columbine? Disturbed people who would otherwise just off themselves in
their basements see the news and want to top it by doing something
worse, and going out in a memorable way. Why a grade school? Why
children? Because he’ll be remembered as a horrible monster, instead of a
sad nobody.
CNN’s article says that if the body count “holds
up”, this will rank as the second deadliest shooting behind Virginia
Tech, as if statistics somehow make one shooting worse than another.
Then they post a video interview of third-graders for all the details of
what they saw and heard while the shootings were happening. Fox News
has plastered the killer’s face on all their reports for hours. Any
articles or news stories yet that focus on the victims and ignore the
killer’s identity? None that I’ve seen yet. Because they don’t sell. So
congratulations, sensationalist media, you’ve just lit the fire for
someone to top this and knock off a day care center or a maternity ward
next. "
- Morgan Freeman
GOODNESS...when will this end? So tired of hearing about guns killing our youth - movie theaters, colleges, elementary schools, Chicago streets and so on...
