Police arrest man who shot 6-year-old, parents and neighbor over a ball.

Police arrest NC man who allegedly shot 6-year-old, parents and neighbor when basketball rolled into yard - ABC News (go.com)

Wonder if Biden is inviting anyone to the WH anytime soon? Also wonder how much primetime coverage this will get, since it flies in the face of the narrative. How many Democrats will MARCH AND PROTEST!!! Also, which was WORSE? One kid getting shot on someone's front door at night, compared to a mass shooting? Wonder if its a hate crime or just par for the course? Hmmmmm.

 

Guy was arrested and being charged. I read about it this morning for the first time from NBC news. Can't imagine what kind of problem you have about this.

 

I saw this story the other day and wondered why the world didn’t stop on a dime and make this shooting international news. As I scrolled through the story the reason became glaringly apparent.

Anyway, Singletary is quite the over achieving success story because, you know, hitting his chick on the head with a sledgehammer and then holding her hostage until she cleaned up the blood only to go on to shooting a bunch of people isn’t an accomplishment very many people can brag about.

 

The only "problem" really, is how it'll be covered and WHO will give it any attention. Are these families being invited to the white house? I'm saying no!! Any black leaders going to use this as an example of how violent and dangerous white people are? Systemic racism? You understand the MASSIVE difference in how certain violent crimes are reported and treated vs others? Who is labeled as the most dangerous or to be feared when statistics say otherwise?

How many Leftists will chime in on this thread vs another thread about a certain kid being shot when he knocked on the wrong door at night?

The PROBLEM is how crime and violence is manipulated to create a story and the impact it has on our society not understanding reality. Its been 4 days now. How quick did that OTHER story become national news with so many being "outraged". Where is the outrage HERE and this is SO MUCH WORSE!

 

The media outlets that feel their customers would want to read about it will publish it and promote the story. The outlets that feel their customer base won't be that interested, won't. They are all businesses selling a product and they tailor that product to what they feel their audience will "buy" through viewership. You're kind of talking like you think the media has a noble purpose and that therefore they should hold themselves to standards that have nothing to do with business. They don't and they won't precisely because they are all for-profit businesses whose only reason for existing is to enrich their shareholders and executives. The Founding Fathers may have recognized that a free press is vital for a functioning democracy, but I doubt they ever envisioned the modern world with 24/7 news coverage accessible from just about anywhere on the planet, nor the size of the conglomerates that have concentrated ownership of that media into the hands of a few.

 

The victims:


The shooter:


That's why the media has no interest in this story. The only reason.

 

Are they going to interview his grandkid on CNN to say that he was racist?

 

Yep, if things had been reversed this story would have been posted here ten minutes after it was published. Plus there’s a good chance the person who created the thread would have said these people were shot for playing basketball while white.

Compared to the story about the white homeowner who shot a black teen, did you notice how no colors were mentioned in the headline of this story? I’m sure you did.

If the media and journalism industry want to regain their credibility they should adopt policies about not mentioning race at all in their titles or stories unless race was a factor in the event they’re reporting on. But the media industry is mostly liberal and they need to stoke hate by exploiting race issues even when race isn’t a factor.

 

I usually agree with your posts and I agree the media is for profit (except NPR), however the MSM today either thinks their customers want to see racism or the media is pushing the thought that everything is racist. I don’t think that helps anyone.

 

Let me guess..."not a hate crime"...lol

 

So, you're saying the MSM is more interested in false representation of reality and pushing news that divides people and creates the impression that racism is everywhere? You'd be correct=) So that makes politicians and our govt what then? For profit? For LIES? For misrepresentation? What does it say when the govt mostly ignores a story about a Trans individual causing mayhem, but makes a HUUUUUGE deal when its a white male shooter they can attach "the Right" to? What does it say when a white woman is beaten by a black mob or a bunch of white people are shot by a black person and its barely a story? Or a MASS SHOOTING that doesn't involve any white people? Barely a blip nation wide. Hmmmm. Yet a single black teen is shot by a crazy old white guy and its a representation of RACISM IN AMERICA, and that kid and family are invited to white house??

Are we NOT supposed to notice? Should we not comment? Should you just sit there while those in control try to convince everyone that white people with guns are the REAL danger, when its not? Doesn't fit a narrative? Doesn't fit their image? What are they trying to accomplish DEMONIZING people, while covering up for others? What's the end game? Should we ignore what they're trying to do? Hope it just goes away?

 

The media couldn't push the narrative if the people weren't eating it up and pushing it all on their own. The news is reactive, and pretty much follows social media trends and patterns now.

I do agree that left-leaning media pushes the racism angle far too much. But thereagain, they push it because they've seen it sells based on social media. If you want to blame anybody, blame the viewers. If, for example, FOX News viewers mostly decided they were done with Trump, sick of him, you'd barely see him on FOX at all. Pick a popular lefty politician and news outlet and the same would hold true. Outlets like Newsmax and OAN cater to the stolen election fantasy crowd and outlets like Huffington Post cater to the woke gender-obsessed crowd. Both push nonsense but they only do it because their viewers want that nonsense.

None of it is good, but I still see it as a pursuit of profits by private companies selling a product rather than some kind of huge conspiracy trying to bring on a new world order. Just like with our elected officials, the bucks stops with us, the viewers and voters. We elect scum and we direct our media outlets to push nonsense based on our votes and our news consumption habits.

 

I'm saying the MSM, like every other private for-profit company out there, are more interested in PROFITS. I doubt there's any news outlet these days that gives a true representation of reality. It's all spun to cater to the consumer of the product. Reality is boring and depressing and usually won't align with any one person's biases and preferences, but if you trim and spruce and polish and paint, you can turn that bland reality into angertainment and sell it as a product.

You're trying apply morality to an ammoral business culture where the only authority is money.

 

You can’t make THIS up, hahaha. One of these is not like the other. Take note of the headline wording. Hahahahahaha

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/20/us/neighbor-child-shooting-basketball-singletary/index.html

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/19/us/kansas-city-ralph-yarl-shooting-wednesday/index.html

 

Why is it that you guys always make the "Why isn't the MSM covering this" argument when THEY ABSOLUTELY ****ING ARE COVERING IT?

 

Do you think that it's going to get near the same amount of coverage for the same length of time or that the race is going to be the main emphasis like it is with the older guy that shot the teen at his door?

Do you think they will go digging through the basketball shooters extended family so they can find one person willing to say that he's racist?

Of course not.

 

I saw less coverage when a conservative murdered some kids in a church because he thought that liberals were ruining the US.

 

Why aren’t the races of the people shown in the headline when they get prominently listed when things are reversed? Did you notice how fast the Nashville shooting faded away and how the story was manipulated to make trannies the victim?

Most people only read the headlines and maybe the first paragraph, and depending on the players involved, certain things get big bold letters and other things don’t get mentioned at all.

 

I saw less coverage when a conservative murdered some kids in a church because he thought that liberals were ruining the US.

 

Everyone who pays attention to the way news is covered at all knows that the coverage would be totally different if the races were simply reversed.

 

Well, in NYC some murders hardly get any coverage at all except for maybe a quick story in the Post. If you want to know why that probably is, take a look at this Excel spreadsheet from the NYPD and scroll over to see who the murderers are and you’ll have your answer.


https://www.nyc.gov/assets/nypd/dow...ide/supplementary-homicide-report-cy2021.xlsx

 

Multiple outlets are covering this.
The difference between this and other cases is that he was immediately arrested and charged. It didn’t take a national outrage and protests to finally see him charged.

 

He turned himself in.

When those college students in Idaho were murdered I remember how blm went on a rant about how much the media covered the story and how multiple law enforcement agencies worked night and day to solve the crime. They said the attention and resources given to solve the murders of pretty white girls isn’t the same as what black murder victims get. When the Notre Dame cathedral caught on fire and grabbed international headlines, blm whined about how those headlines were downing blm out.

There seems to be an expectation that certain races get headlines and attention and certain races don’t.

 

The black monster gave a six year old in bullet fragments to her face and shot her daddy in the back. Who does this?

 

Handguns and knives, gangbangers, drugs and robbery. Someone should tell Biden semi-automatic assault style weapons aren't really our biggest problem.