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Voted : We arbitrarily pick the deaths that are most visible.
I was wondering this today too, and this choice seems about right.
Voted : We arbitrarily pick the deaths that are most visible.
I had no idea the number was that high. But if the 33 deaths figure for Virginia Tech includes the gunman, I don't think that one was a tragedy. News is always about the unusual, as opposed to the deaths that people are used to.
Yeah, I shouldn't have counted the gunman
Voted : We arbitrarily pick the deaths that are most visible.
Number of deaths, celebrity factors, social importance plays a very big role also...
Voted : We arbitrarily pick the deaths that are most visible.
13000 people are killed yearly in crashes involving drunk drivers
Their deaths don’t’ make the news either, when my mother and brother were killed by a drunk driver, it made head lines of local part of our newspaper, briefly mentioned on local news stations.
I suppose because there are so many people killed by drunks and by guns, would never be enough space to cover each story.
My heart goes out to anyone who lost a loved one, those at Virginia Tech and all others killed needlessly.
Also, as much media attention this is getting, next week it will be forgotton, where as an x playboy bunny who died probably because of her weckless lifestyle, continues receiving news coverage months after her her death.
What does that say about our society?
^RECKLESS
This was the nation's worst shooting rampage. School shootings are different, they're unusual. It was a rampage, it wasn't a car accident or a specific kinf of murder.
Voted : We arbitrarily pick the deaths that are most visible.
The ones that seem more out of the usual will get inevitably get more attention. The event in Virginia Tech was incredibly cruel.
But overall, other things such as car accidents, work place accidents, teen suicide, drug abuse, cancer, and such are widely discussed in the US frequently as well.
I agree with Dani_dysfunk. There is something more chilling and disturbing about the cruelty behind a massacre.
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