The Goat Pen

Toemeesleather wrote: More news coverage or less isn't going to make any difference, either.


Honest/ethical news coverage might, let's give it a try.

Explain that, will you? How will more honest/ethical news coverage deter the nutjob mass-shooters. Either you're onto something, or you're just spouting off some bs platitude that means squat.

THE_WIZARD_ wrote:Look at the crime rates of cities that have the most stringest gun laws and tell me if they are working...

Chicago and DC had anti-gun laws that were so restrictive that SCOTUS struck them down two years ago.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/us/29scotus.html

That 4 justices believe that a state or local government can negate a constitutional guarantee is pretty disturbing. Makes you wonder what other constitutional amendments they think a state or or city can suspend. "The city of Dallas appoints a board to approve all articles written in the Dallas Morning News" or "The state of Mississippi bans the practice of Islam."

Professor Tiger wrote:
LMAO. Chicago had 11 murders in ONE WEEKEND.

Heh. Whatever brings you merriment, prof.

What's comical is not the murders, but the stark contrast between how the Aurora murders and a typical weekend in Chicago are covered in the national media. The one with a single white gunman who murders 12 mostly white victims makes huge national headlines and allegedly never "happens in the last 5, 10, 20, or 40 years." But the one with several black/hispanic gunmen who murder a similar number of mostly black/hispanic victims happens every 10, 15, 20 DAYS around here. The MSM hardly ever notices or covers the latter. After all, to do so would be racist.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/48303283

Talk about your misleading article title.

So, the gubment gives the shooter a grant and he uses it to buy guns....you can't make this sh!!te up.

Seriously, Prof? The racially-sensitive MSM ignores Chicago's big murder season?

Chicago Murder Rate Spikes, Mayor and Police Superintendant Under Fire - Washington Post

Chicago Rate of Killings Rises 38 Percent - NYTimes

Chicago Under Fire: Murders Rising Despite Decline in Overall Crime - Suntimes.com

Chicago Homicide Spike - Huffington Post

Chicago Murder Rate Surges as New York Drops to Record Low - Daily Beast

In Chicago, Heat and Homicide Stoke Fear - Christian Science Monitor

Chicago Murder Rate 2012: Heaven is the Latest Victim - The Root

Chicago War Zone - newsone.com

Chicago Violence Intensifying: 4 dead, 30 Wounded Weekend - cbsnews.com

Chicago Killings Spark Outrage - npr.org

Chicago Violence Spurs Change in Tactics - MSNBC

Liz Trotta Upbraids ABC's Stephanopoulus for Not Grilling Pal Emanuel About Chicago Rising Murder Rate - Fox (AH - HA! Fox tells Prof everybody else is burying the Chicago summer death toll. Figures. LMAO.)

Chicago Killings - Anderson Cooper360 - cnn

Chicago Enlists Outside Group to Stem Soaring Murder Rate - Reuters

The Real Story of Chicago's Bloody Summer - Wall Street Journal

Chicago Violence Has Gone Haywire - nbc.today.com

Chicago Killings Jolt City Officials - LA Times

I blame Obama. For everything...

I don't know that they ignore it, but prof is right if he's saying they don't cover it the same way or with the same relentless fervor. That's not the news fault though. They keep banging on the topics that get viewers.

Man bites dog.

but prof is right if he's saying they don't cover it the same way or with the same relentless fervor.



Nor use it to promote their collective agenda.

The program to which Holmes was accepted last fall admits just six students a year. Candidates have top grades and "near perfect" test scores, Shur said. They undergo a background check but no mental examination. "No program requires psychiatric evaluation, to the best of my knowledge,"

Holmes came with "excellent academic credentials," Shur said at a press briefing Monday flanked by school Chancellor Don Elliman and Executive Vice Chancellor Lilly Marks.

"excellent academic credentials,"


No tea partier here....must be a lib.

RIP Sally Ride.

"Nor use it to promote their collective agenda."

LMAO. Their only agenda is to lure in the most viewers which generates advertising revenue. Clearly it has worked in your case....

Toemeesleather wrote:but prof is right if he's saying they don't cover it the same way or with the same relentless fervor.



Nor use it to promote their collective agenda.

LOL

You seriously ought to step back and look at yourself sometimes.

John Muhammad aka The Beltway Sniper



Prof says the race-sensitive media gives the white shooter an unfair amount of the spotlight, but that hasn't always been the case.

Do you really think drunk driving would decline that much? Maybe down to 5,000 a year?You don't think people could easily disengage that option in their cars?

yes, actual driving as opposed to accidents even more, and no, not easily for the average person.

Wait a second. A man bit a dog?

Is it about the shooter or the person or persons shot?