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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
I would think that public shootings that turn out to be indescriminate killings tend to make the news more often than say drug related violence or domestic violence.
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For the local news sure, but the Calgary Herald sure as hell isn't covering the vast majority of incidents that occur in NYC without an additional element to draw them in. The fact this happened in a tourist dense area around a globally known building provided that tie. There have been cases of multiple people being shot this summer in parts of Brooklyn and Queens that barely even register on the local front, let alone internationally.
The fact of the matter is that people don't see a headline that says 'Shooting in 'insert poor neighborhood people haven't heard of' leaves 2 dead and 7 wounded' and stop to read. Replace that with 'Empire State Building' and people's eyes stop.