“Highway shootings haunt America’s roadways”
OOOOH, something “new.”
Media picks up on the meme and starts reporting on more and more incidents at the national level, calling it a trend. Never mind if the number of people who are shot while driving is actually increasing or if the media is simply reporting on more instances.
Brady Bunch smells red meat……………….make that fresh grass.
Story peters out, media starts looking for something “new.”
“Drive-by shootings haunt America’s communities.”
Ooooh, that sounds promising!
Brady Bunch calls for more gun control.
Story peters out. MSM still reports on it at the local level, but it’s not national “news” anymore.
Brady Bunch still appreciates the local coverage but recognizes that they need a new national splash.
“School shootings a national epidemic”
Oooooh, here comes the chubber.
Here’s one with some legs on it. Every school shooting is still reported at the national level…except for that little Appalachian School of Law incident which noone would be interested in.
Brady Bunch sooooo happy with the legs. But all legs have their limits.
As each “new” threat falls out of the “news” cycle, becoming “old news,” a vacuum is created.
The whole issue with the book I’m reading(Random Violence by author Joel Best) is how society and the media continuously find “new crime” so they can report it as “news.”
They totally miss the underlying factor that there are those in our society who care nothing for the rule of law.
This concept is very, very old and not newsworthy. Snark.
To the same extent, gun control activists continuously find new “gun crimes” and new gun violence memes, neglecting the underlying problem of violent behavior.
Blaming an object is simply easier than trying to address the root causes that drive people to violence against their fellow man.
The trick is repackaging the same ol’ crap and polishing that turd to such a high gloss that other people will actually buy it………………………this time.
1 comment:
"society and the media continuously find “new crime” so they can report it as “news.”" And of course the crime isn't "New" at all. Stuff like Cyber Crime or peepers with button cameras, ect are new because they involve new technology. Tho in the end people were "phishing" on the phone or with letter mailings back in the day, and peepers used to have to cut peep holes, or look for open windows.
We've likely had murder for longer than we've had the species of Homo sapiens, who cares if a gang-member escaped on a pogo-stick rather than on foot. What's new about that? In the end it's still murder and gang violence.
Same goes for "Gun Violence", is it really that different for the victim or the family if their loved one was killed with a gun, vs. a pipe, a knife or an ice pick, or poison?
In the end people want to think they live in a more interesting time than ever before.
And in the end, every time in history was interesting, and the significance is only if you were alive during it.
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