Brooke Balwin, formally of CNN , writes in the Atlantic and the Hill, something that should NOT be a surprise to news and political junkies….
The media likes visual stories…
The media likes conflict….
The drop opne story to jump to the next very quickly….
Mass shooting’s are NOT exempt….
Buffalo’s mass shooting story is gone…
The Texas one is already disappearing ….
Gun Control right now is dropping fast for oil and Ukraine storeis on the front page of most media outfits….
In 2006 I covered my first mass shooting at an Amish schoolhouse in rural Pennsylvania. Then Virginia Tech. Tucson. Aurora. Newtown. Fort Hood. Isla Vista. Waco. Charleston. Chattanooga. Lafayette. Moneta. Roseburg. Colorado Springs. San Bernardino. Orlando. Dallas. Baton Rouge. Fort Lauderdale. Alexandria. San Francisco. New York City. Little Rock. Antioch. Las Vegas. Sutherland Springs. Parkland. San Bruno. Nashville. Annapolis. Pittsburgh. Thousand Oaks. Poway. Gilroy. El Paso. Dayton. Midland-Odessa. And those are just the ones that immediately come to mind….
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After a week or 10 days, the outraged public grows tired of hearing about the carnage, loss, and inaction. The audience starts to drop off. The ratings dip. And networks worry about their bottom line. And while the journalists in the field have compassion for the victims of these tragic stories, their bosses at the networks treat the news as ratings-generating revenue sources. No ratings? Less coverage. It’s as simple as that….