This may be impolitic, but...

[Xelor]

This may be impolitic, but am I the only one who isn't interested in "all day long" US news coverage of a mass shooting/terrorist shooting in New Zealand?

Don't get me wrong, I'd be quite interested in in-depth scholarly analysis of the event and what it suggests, portends, etc. for a host of criminal and cultural trends. But this soon, nothing of that sort is going to emerge. Yes, the shooter is a "whites-only" whacko. We're very familiar with them; we have far too many of them in the US, including the "on the DL" one in the WH. Antipodean ones aren't materially different; they just have nifty accents.

Barring that, however, I'm "worn out" on "24/7" news about one-off nutjob mass shootings in the US. I'm truly not interested in "up to the minute" information about an event two-thirds of the way around the world from the US.

I don't know about you, but the arrest of two of the 2015 Paris bombing attackers in A-dam is, to more interesting, to say nothing of lots of stuff going on in the US.

 

[Chillfolks]

The coverage isn’t about information it’s about pushing a agenda to increase gun control here. the Coverage is just a tool in the propaganda arsenal

 

[DaveFagan]

This may be impolitic, but am I the only one who isn't interested in "all day long" US news coverage of a mass shooting/terrorist shooting in New Zealand?

Don't get me wrong, I'd be quite interested in in-depth scholarly analysis of the event and what it suggests, portends, etc. for a host of criminal and cultural trends. But this soon, nothing of that sort is going to emerge. Yes, the shooter is a "whites-only" whacko. We're very familiar with them; we have far too many of them in the US, including the "on the DL" one in the WH. Antipodean ones aren't materially different; they just have nifty accents.

Barring that, however, I'm "worn out" on "24/7" news about one-off nutjob mass shootings in the US. I'm truly not interested in "up to the minute" information about an event two-thirds of the way around the world from the US.

I don't know about you, but the arrest of two of the 2015 Paris bombing attackers in A-dam is, to more interesting, to say nothing of lots of stuff going on in the US.

I think the MSM pumps it by partial manipulation by people that think DHS and TSA are needed. I don't think they are needed. Terrorism is overrated, in my opinion, so when opportuntiy avails pump it up, and this is one opportunity. Cui bono? That, and we live in a World of drama queens.
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[Tanngrisnir]

The coverage isn’t about information it’s about pushing a agenda to increase gun control here. the Coverage is just a tool in the propaganda arsenal

Patently untrue. As everyone knows, the coverage is about increasing sales of condiments, more specifically, mustard and relishes.

 

[lwf]

The coverage isn’t about information it’s about pushing a agenda to increase gun control here. the Coverage is just a tool in the propaganda arsenal

No, it's about ratings, pure and simple. The almighty dollar is the only agenda here. The anti-gun lobby just appropriates it to their advantage.

 

[jnug]

No, it's about ratings, pure and simple. The almighty dollar is the only agenda here. The anti-gun lobby just appropriates it to their advantage.

Cable News now treats their airtime like I used to treat either my catalog square inches or web site page. Every single minute of their time blocks are scheduled with a purpose which of course is why you can tell that the Producers are screaming their lungs out at the on-air talent if they are off by a few seconds here and there. So I seriously doubt anything we see there on any given day is happenstance.

"In other news California fell into the Pacific Ocean..but now back to the BREAKING NEWS we want to broadcast".

 

[Bullseye]

The coverage isn’t about information it’s about pushing a agenda to increase gun control here. the Coverage is just a tool in the propaganda arsenal

Gun control AND Trump as a racist mindset. Which is why minority quality of life under his policies has improved significantly.

 

[lwf]

Cable News now treats their airtime like I used to treat either my catalog square inches or web site page. Every single minute of their time blocks are scheduled with a purpose which of course is why you can tell that the Producers are screaming their lungs out at the on-air talent if they are off by a few seconds here and there. So I seriously doubt anything we see there on any given day is happenstance.

"In other news California fell into the Pacific Ocean..but now back to the BREAKING NEWS we want to broadcast".

They most definitely have an agenda: To get the best ratings they can possibly get in order to make the most money on advertising they possibly can. Their agenda is to pander to what the majority of their viewers want to see: Usually the most terrifying and tragic stories they can find. Both political parties use this to their advantage. When their current agenda is no longer profitable, the news will pivot to whatever is, and the political parties will follow suit.

 

[SonOfDaedalus]

It's a welcome break from 24/7 Trump news.

 

[SonOfDaedalus]

Gun control AND Trump as a racist mindset. Which is why minority quality of life under his policies has improved significantly.

Give me the statistic that has improved for minorities under Trump that wasn't also improving under Obama? Minority unemployment was dropping for years under Obama and continued under Trump. Why does Trump get the credit?

 

[Irwin Corey]

This may be impolitic, but am I the only one who isn't interested in "all day long" US news coverage of a mass shooting/terrorist shooting in New Zealand?

Don't get me wrong, I'd be quite interested in in-depth scholarly analysis of the event and what it suggests, portends, etc. for a host of criminal and cultural trends. But this soon, nothing of that sort is going to emerge. Yes, the shooter is a "whites-only" whacko. We're very familiar with them; we have far too many of them in the US, including the "on the DL" one in the WH. Antipodean ones aren't materially different; they just have nifty accents.

Barring that, however, I'm "worn out" on "24/7" news about one-off nutjob mass shootings in the US. I'm truly not interested in "up to the minute" information about an event two-thirds of the way around the world from the US.

I don't know about you, but the arrest of two of the 2015 Paris bombing attackers in A-dam is, to more interesting, to say nothing of lots of stuff going on in the US.

Xel, Yeah, it's insensitive. You might think it, you might change the channel, you might do something dumb, but when 49 people die and you get tired of hearing about it … let it go and … zip it.

 

[apdst]

This may be impolitic, but am I the only one who isn't interested in "all day long" US news coverage of a mass shooting/terrorist shooting in New Zealand?

Don't get me wrong, I'd be quite interested in in-depth scholarly analysis of the event and what it suggests, portends, etc. for a host of criminal and cultural trends. But this soon, nothing of that sort is going to emerge. Yes, the shooter is a "whites-only" whacko. We're very familiar with them; we have far too many of them in the US, including the "on the DL" one in the WH. Antipodean ones aren't materially different; they just have nifty accents.

Barring that, however, I'm "worn out" on "24/7" news about one-off nutjob mass shootings in the US. I'm truly not interested in "up to the minute" information about an event two-thirds of the way around the world from the US.

I don't know about you, but the arrest of two of the 2015 Paris bombing attackers in A-dam is, to more interesting, to say nothing of lots of stuff going on in the US.

They can't blame the arrest on President Trump.

Before you can blame all the bad **** on President Trump, you have to report ad nauseum on bad ****.

Otherwise, they couldn't push the narrative that not omly is he destroying the country, but the world.

 

[Bullseye]

Give me the statistic that has improved for minorities under Trump that wasn't also improving under Obama? Minority unemployment was dropping for years under Obama and continued under Trump. Why does Trump get the credit?

LOL, trying the "Obama already did that" horse manure, eh? Maybe minority unemployment was declining under Obama but it hit record lows under Trump. Twice in one year. Minority home ownership has gone up since 2016. Of course Trump's wage gains helped everyone, including minorities. How about minority small business ownership

 

[jnug]

It is also true that there simply is not 24 hours of news in a 24 hour news day. There has not been since the inception of 24 hours news at the first Iraq war when we sat around with baited breath watching reporters for hour after hour standing around waiting for something to happen. There is STILL just about 2 actual hours of news in any 24 hour news cycle. The Cable News networks spool them up into their A and B blocks hour after hour and then later in the day and evening pontificate on them hour after hour until the "new" day mercifully ends.

 

[Xelor]

I think the MSM pumps it by partial manipulation by people that think DHS and TSA are needed. I don't think they are needed. Terrorism is overrated, in my opinion, so when opportuntiy avails pump it up, and this is one opportunity. Cui bono? That, and we live in a World of drama queens.
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Red:
I'm not cynical enough to say vis-a-vis the context you have in mind.

And, yes, I realize the "red" question is rhetorical and provided, albeit with a different topical focus, with roughly the same linguistically emphatic intent as Erma Bombeck.

Remember all those women on the "Titanic" who waved off the dessert cart.
-- Erma Bombeck​

Blue:
Well, I agree with that.

 

[Xelor]

Xel, Yeah, it's insensitive. You might think it, you might change the channel, you might do something dumb, but when 49 people die and you get tired of hearing about it … let it go and … zip it.

Look, this event occurred about as far away from the US as it's possible for an inhabited nation to be, yet it's all over the news, and still is.

More proximate and comparably heinous (relatively) recent events have gone largely unreported, at least on the telly.

• May 2018 -- Heavily armed men killed 45 people and wounded 12 in an assault on a village in northwestern Nigeria
• Oct 2018 -- 55 killed in an attack by Fulani herdsmen
• July 2016 -- Sagamihara stabbings (19 people killed)

Mass shootings/killings seem, compared to their incidence in the US, rare. One'd thus expect all of them would be "all over" the news, yet they're not, yet the recent one in NZ is. Are we supposed to construe then that the extensive coverage reflects a material change in US television news outlets' reporting scope?

If a supervolcano in NZ erupts, sure, that's "news one can use," so to speak, from NZ. This recent event, unquestionably deplorable and gut wrenching for the victims, their families and friends, consists of a dude who traveled from Australia to NZ to kill NZ-ers. Why is this a major-enough event that it warrants so much coverage in the US?

Some have suggested the reason is that the shooter was "radicalized" by US rhetoric and white supremacist "evangelism." Others have suggested the US' dominant role in shaping world culture has resulted in the virulence and ubiquity of mass shootings in the US catalyzing similarly opprobrious comportment abroad, even as far away as in typically peaceful NZ. Very well, though I don't know whether either notion is preponderantly so, each is plausible enough that rigorous sociological/anthropological analysis of those postulates should be the focus of US news stories, stories wherein the NZ shooting is an illustrative data point, should comprise their narrative nexus. At least, I think so, because everything else about the NZ story is either (1) too geographically distant to be germane or (2) an issue with which we already grapple and routinely discuss, and one more dude, most especially not one in NZ or Australia, will alter anything about the issue.

Do I lack sympathy for the victims and their loved ones? No, of course not. Am I suggesting that we should be so emotionally vapid? No, not at all. My gravamen is if the event is going to occupy so much airtime, then don't devote the airtime to banal aspects of the matter; cover comprehensively what is, for US viewers, tropically trenchant and relevant. That's not what the news has been doing.

The news has been dull: (1) many people killed and injured; (2) the victims were Muslim; (3) the shooter is a white supremacist. That's worth hearing in the immediate aftermath of the event, but afterwards, for an event so far away, something more substantive than just that is needed, especially on US TV.

 

[Fledermaus]

I think the MSM pumps it by partial manipulation by people that think DHS and TSA are needed. I don't think they are needed. Terrorism is overrated, in my opinion, so when opportuntiy avails pump it up, and this is one opportunity. Cui bono? That, and we live in a World of drama queens.
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Terrorism is over rated....

Hmmmmmm

Where were you when 9/11 occurred?

You must have missed it.

 

[Moderate Right]

This may be impolitic, but am I the only one who isn't interested in "all day long" US news coverage of a mass shooting/terrorist shooting in New Zealand?

Don't get me wrong, I'd be quite interested in in-depth scholarly analysis of the event and what it suggests, portends, etc. for a host of criminal and cultural trends. But this soon, nothing of that sort is going to emerge. Yes, the shooter is a "whites-only" whacko. We're very familiar with them; we have far too many of them in the US, including the "on the DL" one in the WH. Antipodean ones aren't materially different; they just have nifty accents.

Barring that, however, I'm "worn out" on "24/7" news about one-off nutjob mass shootings in the US. I'm truly not interested in "up to the minute" information about an event two-thirds of the way around the world from the US.

I don't know about you, but the arrest of two of the 2015 Paris bombing attackers in A-dam is, to more interesting, to say nothing of lots of stuff going on in the US.

It plays into the leftist's MSM agenda of being against gun control. Plaster this on 24/7 and the American public will demand more gun control. It's part of the brainwashing of the MSM.

 

[Barnacle]

The coverage isn’t about information it’s about pushing a agenda to increase gun control here. the Coverage is just a tool in the propaganda arsenal

... and don't forget that each "airing" allows for the media to tie the name Trump to it. /s

 

[Saladin4]

... and don't forget that each "airing" allows for the media to tie the name Trump to it. /s

The crazed White Trash Terrorist did...He hailed trump.....Said he was "A Symbol of Renewed White Identity"

 

[Xelor]

It plays into the leftist's MSM agenda of being against gun control. Plaster this on 24/7 and the American public will demand more gun control. It's part of the brainwashing of the MSM.

Has the kind of gun the guy used even been mentioned? It may have been. I don't know. I just don't recall having heard it and I have noticed there's not this time a major outcry about semiautomatic weapons.

 

[Xelor]

... and don't forget that each "airing" allows for the media to tie the name Trump to it. /s

I no longer care to what anyone "ties" Trump or his name. I've made my unalterable conclusion about him. That man could cure the common cold or cancer and my stance about him would not change except that I'd say he's the reprobate who cured cancer/the common cold.

 

[Fishking]

The coverage isn’t about information it’s about pushing a agenda to increase gun control here. the Coverage is just a tool in the propaganda arsenal

Which ironically was one of the stated goals of the New Zealand shooter.

 

[Moderate Right]

Has the kind of gun the guy used even been mentioned? It may have been. I don't know. I just don't recall having heard it and I have noticed there's not this time a major outcry about semiautomatic weapons.

But the MSM leans to the left and they broadcast the news with a leftist agenda. They want gun control (that's not for them to decide because they should only report the news and not their opinion of the news) and they feel if they plaster this on 24/7 Americans will clamor for more gun control in this country, even though this particular shooting happened in a different country.

 

[beancounter]

The news media operates on sensationalism. Both CNN, Fox, and all the rest are guilty of it.