I guess I'm curious, do people feel what happened in Chicago over the weekend deserves as much coverage as mass shootings?
You see...if you only care about mass shootings done by white supremacists and only focus on those, you do not care about gun violence. You care about white supremacy. Which is fine, but it is not the same as caring about gun violence.
If you target guns like AK-47s and ignore the many many more deaths by handguns and advocate for weapon bans that have been proven not to work...you also do not care about gun violence. I can point out mass shootings with higher body counts than el paso where only handguns were used. The one in Virginia from 4-5 years ago is one. You will not be able to stop these kinds of tragedies by getting rid of guns like AK-47s, etc.
Originally posted by Surtur
I guess I'm curious, do people feel what happened in Chicago over the weekend deserves as much coverage as mass shootings?You see...if you only care about mass shootings done by white supremacists and only focus on those, you do not care about gun violence. You care about white supremacy. Which is fine, but it is not the same as caring about gun violence.
If you target guns like AK-47s and ignore the many many more deaths by handguns and advocate for weapon bans that have been proven not to work...you also do not care about gun violence. I can point out mass shootings with higher body counts than el paso where only handguns were used. The one in Virginia from 4-5 years ago is one. You will not be able to stop these kinds of tragedies by getting rid of guns like AK-47s, etc.
Are you trying to argue that white supremacist shootings have been given more media coverage than non white supremacist shootings?
Pretty sure that's not the case.
Originally posted by jaden_2.0
Are you trying to argue that white supremacist shootings have been given more media coverage than non white supremacist shootings?Pretty sure that's not the case.
I'm arguing mass shootings get more coverage than 7 dead and 40 shot in a city over the span of a few days, in what is not an atypical weekend. I'm arguing if you focus less on that and more on mass shootings(which yes are more rare) you don't truly care about gun violence.
I'm also claiming yes, a mass shooting by a white supremacist will get more coverage. We're seeing el paso talked about more than Dayton. And we're seeing the media leave out details about the Dayton killer(like his political leanings). Not *all* in the media are doing that, but some are.
Originally posted by jaden_2.0
Pretty sure Columbine, Sandyhook, Parkland, Orlando, Las Vegas, Virginia Tech, Fort Hood, San Bernardino and Aurora all got much more coverage.
If you wanna believe the media doesn't pounce more on mass shootings by whites, okay.
Weird though, now you can comment on our media? Lol. But not before, for my other question in the other thread? That shit is so strange. You bent over backwards before to avoid making a comment.
All those shootings were wall to wall coverage on the BBC/Sky News for a considerable length of time over here. Neither of the latest ones were even top story for more than a day.
If you want me to address claims of bias I can only go with the similar accusations levied at our media broadcasters. The BBC gets accused of bias from all sides here. Sky News is owned by Rupert Murdoch so is our equivalent of Fox News. The popular political radio station LBC also gets accused of bias yet has commentators/hosts that range from Nigel Farage to James O'Brian
Originally posted by jaden_2.0
Against who?
Don't ask stupid shit, especially if you're in the UK you should know.
They are supposed to be neutral. Why was a baby trump balloon brought into their studios?
Feel free to excuse it if you need to go that route. They'd bring the baby Sadiq Khan blimp into their studios too I'm sure.
So your argument is a balloon?
Not that it's chief political correspondent Laura Kuenssberg has been found guilty of breaking the BBCs impartiality guidelines or that it's main political interviewer, Andrew Neil has been editor of numerous right wing publications and is a member of the conservative party or that it's former chief political correspondent Nick Robinson is a member of the conservative party or that Nigel Farage has appeared on the main political panel show Question Time more than anyone else despite never having been elected to the UK parliament despite running 7 times for election?
A balloon though.
*sings* Ohh not bias, not bias.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/aug/3/sarah-jeong-story-by-bbc-edited-racist-descriptor-/
They also got diversity quotas. Shall someone defend it?
Originally posted by Robtard
You're correct.The "media only cares when it's a White Supremacist" angle is just nonsense from the usual suspects.
Showing more white crime compared to black crime in a certain area, even if statistics skew the other direction, is an example of the media taking a biased stance.
This is what Cops director admitted to doing in an interview.
An example of CNN skewing narratives, is placing emphasis on the "white" aspect of a white hispanic in a certain Stand Your Ground case.
My point, is CNN isn't the network to downplay white crime as anything less then a cultural illness specific to white people, which would never happen if a shooter is, say, Muslim. (But you can count on Fox to hammer home how bad Muslims are.)