Damn... D:... I'm definitely going to share the news in my Senior Inq. class. I think it's tie for American media should stop being so isolated when it comes to things like this, yes? We're not the only country in the world D
It's how US keeps its people complacent. Our form of censorship. It's not that we don't have ACCESS to the information, which, evidently, we by all means do. It's just that the media here doesn't voluntarily report it. It's conditioned us to the point where we no longer feel the urge to concern ourselves with it as long as it doesn't truly concern us. The next step would be to make it so that even if the information were provided, we wouldn't care. Socially conditioned apathy, and it's really sad because it's already starting to take quite a strong hold.
It always baffles me when I hear people gasping about the censorship in China and other less "liberal" and "free" countries when US probably has the most potent and most frightening form of censorship of all.
At least they did in France. I'll be scouting the news today and if there's NO report on it whatsoever [I doubt it, bcuz here in GWU CNN is on everywhere 24/7] I will be very, very sad.
That's so terrible! I don't just watch CNN (I'm a commuter student so I can watch the news at home) and I haven't seen anything broadcast on either MSN or FOXNews. There might be something on their websites, maybe (that's where most of the stuff goes that they "don't have time to show because of breaking! news."
They did, however show footage of a school shooting that took place somewhere on the east coast (NJ?), but I wouldn't hold my breath for news of a story like this. It's terrible, but the editors are going to assume that because Americans weren't involved, Americans aren't going to care. If any coverage is done at all, it'll be limited, because this isn't as large as the Beslan incident.
...jeez, that's just... so awful. I'm really glad YouTube removed that video.
I didn't see anything on any channel. And you have no idea how much that depresses me.
I'm actually a decently avid news viewer, too.
If YouTube didn't remove the video, would people have been saved? If you saw a footage on YouTube regarding your school like that, would you still go to school the next day?
I heard about this yesterday...Working at a university where a shooting has happened before makes you more aware of such things. It's really sad and surprising, considering the lack of gun-related violence and their high gun ownership in Finland, which usually relates to more emphasis on gun safety.
And, yes, the American media reported on it-- Reuters (a news service) had an article out about it yesterday. And the problem with media and society is this--the media won't report on a story that doesn't have a local tie to the U.S. But is that a function of not reporting on something they think consumers won't be interested in, or are consumers not paying attention to something that doesn't happen here? It's really a "chicken or the egg" kind of predicament--which came first, consumer disinterest or media gate keeping
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which came first, consumer disinterest or media gate keeping?
IAWTC. And you're right, I didn't hear anything about it whatsoever. You'd think a school in DC would have a little more contact with the outside world. I suppose not.
U.S. media is very focused on American news--you don't hear much about what's going on outside of our country unfortunately...
"Old news". That's so very sad. :(
And that's the problem with the 24-hour news cycle created by the likes of CNN, Fox News and MSNBC, among others--news becomes very old, very quickly. If it's not in the midst of happening or literally "just happened," it's very unlikely to get covered, unless it's a slow news day. Then of course, there's the 24-hour coverage of major crisis events, like the wildfires last month, where it dominates the news for hours upon end. It's an interesting dichotomy...
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(sorry about the repeat -_-;;)
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It always baffles me when I hear people gasping about the censorship in China and other less "liberal" and "free" countries when US probably has the most potent and most frightening form of censorship of all.
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It's sadder how no one here really knows or cares.
But hey, it happened yesterday, so maybe it'll get bigger. But from experiences in the past? Doubt it.
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Here in France, the medias talked about it.
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They did, however show footage of a school shooting that took place somewhere on the east coast (NJ?), but I wouldn't hold my breath for news of a story like this. It's terrible, but the editors are going to assume that because Americans weren't involved, Americans aren't going to care. If any coverage is done at all, it'll be limited, because this isn't as large as the Beslan incident.
...jeez, that's just... so awful. I'm really glad YouTube removed that video.
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I'm actually a decently avid news viewer, too.
If YouTube didn't remove the video, would people have been saved? If you saw a footage on YouTube regarding your school like that, would you still go to school the next day?
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And, yes, the American media reported on it-- Reuters (a news service) had an article out about it yesterday. And the problem with media and society is this--the media won't report on a story that doesn't have a local tie to the U.S. But is that a function of not reporting on something they think consumers won't be interested in, or are consumers not paying attention to something that doesn't happen here? It's really a "chicken or the egg" kind of predicament--which came first, consumer disinterest or media gate keeping ( ... )
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IAWTC. And you're right, I didn't hear anything about it whatsoever. You'd think a school in DC would have a little more contact with the outside world. I suppose not.
"Old news". That's so very sad. :(
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"Old news". That's so very sad. :(
And that's the problem with the 24-hour news cycle created by the likes of CNN, Fox News and MSNBC, among others--news becomes very old, very quickly. If it's not in the midst of happening or literally "just happened," it's very unlikely to get covered, unless it's a slow news day. Then of course, there's the 24-hour coverage of major crisis events, like the wildfires last month, where it dominates the news for hours upon end. It's an interesting dichotomy...
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But it's also true. It is physically impossible to know everything that goes on, so who determines what is important?
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ohh scary news o.O
take care
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