• mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca
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    5 days ago

    are you referring to this article as an example? because doesn’t this article fit the bill? over a dozen people injured, four dead

    sure there’s maybe an argument over the threshold for duration of the event, but that’s surely enough victims, yeah?

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      5 days ago

      I’m not talking about numbers.

      To me it’s telling that the national media completely ignored these types of targeted shootings until there was a way to market them.

      That’s quite weird to me! It’s like it’s national news until people just realize it was poor people fighting.

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        5 days ago

        ah, that makes sense. I thought you meant they were just attaching the phrase to as much as possible, on stuff they were already reporting. not adding more reports based on content type.

        can’t say I’ve noticed that, though, in the little I pay attention to msm