(Puts flame suit on) Why is the media sweeping Newtown under the carpet/rug?-NRA getting to them?
I was just comparing media coverage of Littleton to Newtown.
I noticed that the media has returned to incessantly ranting about Bhengazi and the latest blizzard or weather system. CNN was interviewing Peter King this morning in a Hillary bash fest over Bhengazi. When they weren't doing that, they were covering the blizzard. NBC Nightly News last night had minimal coverage of the Newtown aftermath. They led with the blizzard, then the fiscal cliff I believe.
I thought-Oh ok, maybe this is how they handled Columbine as well. I went back into the archives located here:
http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/tvn-month-search.pl
Columbine led the national network newscasts every day for at least 2 work-weeks. Check it out. It wasn't swept under the carpet.
With Newtown, it wasn't even extensively covered on Good Morning America and Today on Tuesday, just 5 days after.
I can only assume that the media blew up the tragedy in Littleton, CO because George W. Bush was already running at that time and his main message was that he was going to "restore honor and dignity to the oval office" and morality in America if you recall. School shootings kind of fed into Bush's message that America was morally off track and we all know how the media was a mouth-piece for the 2000 Shrub campaign against Al Gore.
Perhaps, with Newtown and 20 beautiful little babies dead, the media and their puppet masters see the extreme danger to them-regulation of violence on TV, tighter gun control, regulation of violent video games, President Obama who they despise comforting the victims and working to end the scourge of youth and gun violence perhaps making his approval ratings go even higher.
We saw the same thing in Aurora. The media swept the Batman massacre under the rug quickly as well because I suspect they feared that President Obama being able to be comforter-in-chief and POTUS hurt their guy Romney's campaign and took the focus off Mittens.
If the focus is on Bhengazi, the fiscal cliff, and blizzards, the NRA and their Republican friends can weasel out 0of passing any meaningful legislation. Is that what the media is up to here?
If I am not being conspiracy-theory oriented, why does a massacre where 12 adults and kids are killed get 24/7 coverage for a month where a massacre where 20 babies are killed just gets attention for 4 days?
P.S.: Anderson Cooper and CNN are the only ones not sweeping this under the carpet but I suspect that's just because they see this as a way to boost their ratings, which suck. The coverage of this has been nowhere near as extensive as Columbine and I am left to wonder why...
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