Bari: sorry that I didn’t see a way to send you a note outside of another story’s comments. I want to suggest a story to explore. It is the relabeling of “mass shootings” to incorporate what used to be called “gang-related” or “rival” shootings. This this seems intentional, to draw away labels from black on black shootings, while simulta…
Bari: sorry that I didn’t see a way to send you a note outside of another story’s comments. I want to suggest a story to explore. It is the relabeling of “mass shootings” to incorporate what used to be called “gang-related” or “rival” shootings. This this seems intentional, to draw away labels from black on black shootings, while simultaneously increasing the incidences of “mass shootings” that strengthens the gun ban argument. The prompt for this note came from a CBS national evening news on Memorial Day about a shooting near Miami, FL. The intro headline was “Mass shooting”, while the report told of rival groups shooting at each other, 4-5 guns recovered, innocent bystanders shot in the crossfire, etc. It seems the categorization of this as a mass shooting is meant to obscure some behavior we no longer want to talk about, and build a narrative of epidemic mass shootings, which there are already plenty of. Many traditional media report and label similarly.
Bari: sorry that I didn’t see a way to send you a note outside of another story’s comments. I want to suggest a story to explore. It is the relabeling of “mass shootings” to incorporate what used to be called “gang-related” or “rival” shootings. This this seems intentional, to draw away labels from black on black shootings, while simultaneously increasing the incidences of “mass shootings” that strengthens the gun ban argument. The prompt for this note came from a CBS national evening news on Memorial Day about a shooting near Miami, FL. The intro headline was “Mass shooting”, while the report told of rival groups shooting at each other, 4-5 guns recovered, innocent bystanders shot in the crossfire, etc. It seems the categorization of this as a mass shooting is meant to obscure some behavior we no longer want to talk about, and build a narrative of epidemic mass shootings, which there are already plenty of. Many traditional media report and label similarly.
Maybe there’s a story there . . .