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Originally Posted by bizaro86
I would guess the reporting of stabbings deaths has remained pretty constant at approx. 100%
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But you now get every stabbing from everywhere.
I think the delocalization of news and the way it propagates into your day is why people feel less safe.
Not only is the content much less local you also get it instantly and the coverage is ongoing. Instead of hearing it once on the 6pm news and reading it in the paper the next morning, then a week later when a person is charged and 1 year later when they are convicted.
You now get
4:52 Breaking news -- People stabbed in Calgary
4:58 Calgarypuck thread
5:03 Breaking news -- People stabbed in Chinook Mall
5:05 Breaking news -- 3 people stabbed, Cause unknown
5:15 Breaking news -- 3 people stabbed, Random attack
Then you get 6 different opion pieces and blogs and facebooks comments ranging from Blaming videogames to blaming immigrants. Then when the person is arrested we have a discussion on parenting if it was a white kid and racism if it was a person of color (Which in itself is kinda racist).
And so this one stabbing becomes a touchstone for a few days to discuss all of the other "issues" that get rehashed over and over. So instead of hearing about this 5 times over the course of a year it becomes part of an ongoing anxiety inducing narrative that society is falling apart. .