Five dead in Illinois shooting, but it's not front page news

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24 Apr 2013, 4:47 pm

The two most reputable sources I could find:

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Latest-New ... in-custody

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/201 ... inois-town

I guess people dying in public housing is not newsworthy as upper middle class elementary school kids and theater patrons.

Please PPR this if and when necessary.

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24 Apr 2013, 6:54 pm

you cant trial run marshal law for those kinds of shootings

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24 Apr 2013, 7:08 pm

Don't worry. The five recent shooting deaths in Federal Way this past weekend barely made news either.

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24 Apr 2013, 9:06 pm

PM wrote:

I guess people dying in public housing is not newsworthy as upper middle class elementary school kids and theater patrons.

Just as well it stay out of the media's and Obama's limelight.
If he gets in front of a TV camera again and sheds another crocodile tear like the last time we'll be back to square one with the gun and ammo hording.

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26 Apr 2013, 12:26 pm

Last year a seven-year-old African-American girl was gang raped at a party in public housing.

Her teen-aged sister charged money from them to do it.

Last year a fourteen-year-old Hmong girl was gang raped at a party in an abandoned house in a bad neighborhood; her friend escaped and got help.

Both cases made the news, but not THE NEWS!

I agree, the victims who 'matter' are white, middle to high income, and photogenic.

I DO feel that the Richmond and Steubenville victims deserve every sympathy, but so do the other girls!

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26 Apr 2013, 1:52 pm

Maybe the timing or the way it's reported that counts.
Once something starts getting considerable attention it's like a snowball rolling down a steep slope, it only gets bigger and faster.
I don't think it's a matter of racism.

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26 Apr 2013, 4:05 pm

Two people die every second. They can't all make the news.

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28 Apr 2013, 1:39 am

PM wrote:

Even Sandy Hook got grossly inappropriate media attention. Keep calm and carry on.

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