I'm not interested in sources or their legitimacy -the truth inevitably is what we can only perceive it to be.
What I had issue with was the part of your post that I bolded - as a visual heads-up to what I was pin-pointing.
To say that members here
ONLY make threads about events that are focused on by mainstream media is a falsehood and a reflection on the literary and social mettle of all members on this site.
I myself initiate discussions off the top of my head about random subjects that are of interest to me - and maybe others - and have made threads on Happiness, Luck, Ambidextrosity, Wants, Multitasking, Parenting, etc, etc, while I also touch on subjects that are on-going phenomenons - like the 'power of water' or the most recent trends in the blacklist.
When something in the major media takes up the attention of all, no doubt someone feels compelled to bring it to the table so that views can be exchanged and information shared. This doesn't happen with every global event; the discussion on the Sandy Hook shootings was initiated long after the even occurred - there was no hour-by-hour live-reports being discussed here until many, many hours of the incident happening, though mainstream media was on the scene right away.
Your personal evaluation of the media is fine by me - but to swipe at an entire site's posting habits so loftily, yet subtly enough to be subliminally seductive in its programming was all I found jarring.
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On topic - I wanted to give any members here who live in the locality a heads-up, as well as glean any information I could get from them; there was also another shooting shortly afterwards, and my penchant for looking at patterns of criminal and violent behviour to add to my ever-so-nosey database of potientials was what made me chase after such information. For a shooting to make it into the major media is actually big, or strange, or out of the ordinary in some way. There are no lack of shootings to report in any given week; where I live there have been multiple shootings every week, for several weeks - none of them make it into the international media - and the local stations sometimes only give it a passing comment, the weather and sports being a lot more important.
Well, it is mostly gangsters, still living with their mums, who are touching each other with those bullets.
This discussion is now old hat - and will be closed presently - unless anyone has anything to add - to prevent undue bumping.
