A Mass Shooting Happened Yesterday But You Didn’t Hear Anything About It

By artappraiser on Mon, 11/11/2013 - 8:49pm |

By Annie-Rose Strasser, ThinkProgress, Nov. 8, 2013

[....] Sadly, the relative media ignorance of the shooting tracks with a common theme: Gun crimes often occur in low-income neighborhoods with largely non-white victims, but, from the news, you’d think every shooting put the white and affluent at risk of violence. There’s an obvious reason from a producer’s perspective: They want traffic, or viewers, and think they can get more if more well-off news consumers are self-concerned with the story. But it doesn’t reflect the reality of gun violence in the United States, where black people are far more likely to be victims of gun homicides compared to their white counterparts [....]

For more on gun violence in Detroit, see this piece by Ashley Woods @ Huffington Post, which piggybacks off the above.

URL:

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/11/08/2915581/detroit-barber-shop-shooting/