Is Newtown Making Such News Because The Kids Are Mostly White?

[Ivywoods55]

30. I agree with this post...

If it were just about how many children were killed, that many and more are killed in Chicago everyday and the media just shrugs if off as an everyday occurrence...they don't even care. It has been this way for the last three or four years, each year the death toll in Chicago has been over three hundred or close to it, and no one has given a browny-chit about how old they were or how many died, especially not the MSM....now tell me again it is not about what color the children were, or that it does not make any difference that the children were white....as to the screams for more gun control, Black children die on a second-by-second basis somewhere in the U.S. from gun violence, have been for decades, where has the raised voices calling for more severe gun control been? Mostly SILENT! Until now. I am not begrudging the outcries for more gun control, because whatever happens may help save hundreds of thousands of "children's lives" no matter the color, but let's not pretend that the color, age, and background did not form a perfect image for the white MSM to pick up and carry this story....because all of these things did, and always will. My heart aches for any parent that loses a child, I have been there, I know the pain, the hurt and the anger of losing a child because someone else was experiencing problems with, and in, his own private world, and a gun was easily available for him to use, so this issue is personal to me. Any coverage on this issue is good coverage, but is it "fair" coverage to other, far more browner children who die from and because of the same reasons, that should be the question. Thank you.