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Originally Posted by shakran
It was a shooting. It happened in a school. Ergo. . .
I'm sorry that you have chosen to narrowly define school shooting as a shooting that happens in a school and which must be executed only by a member of that school.
We in the media define a school shooting as a shooting that happens in a school, no matter who carries it out.
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No need to get defensive, it's just my opinion/belief on the subject at hand.
And I've never heard of a shooting in x location referred to an "x shooting" other than school. It's just called a shooting, every other time i've ever seen or heard about a shooting happening at any other kind of place. No highway shootings or mall shootings or home shootings or Mini-Golf shootings... just "school shooting".
Can you honestly tell me that media coverage of shootings that happen at schools aren't
much more intensely covered and hyped up than any other normal shooting at any other location?
Six lives are six lives, no matter the age- but the media seems to
love dead kids.
I've seen countless stories on "how safe are your kids at school" and "bullies in the classroom" aimed at covering every angle of the why and how's of school shootings and what little any person to can do help.
Have you ever seen a story on "how safe are you at the mall" or "on the highway" or "while getting some McDonalds", with regards to how easy it is to be the random victim of a shooting? Nope. Why? Media loves dead kids. It sells.
Tell me death doesn't sell. Tell me. I'd love to see someone try and tell me death doesn't sell- the deaths of children, even moreso. Go ahead, i'm getting ready to laugh right now, so I'll be prepared in case it happens.
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