re: Mark Dice: Black man shoots up white church, MSM ignores it

Gee, the news media (nor the President) didn't overtalk on a story of 1 dead person (RIP Melanie Smith), and instead decided to talk on and on about:

The NFL Protests and the 3rd (or 4th) attempt at a GOP Healthcare bill. The Puerto Rico story also started picking up steam.

Another topic buried was the reappearance of the Travel Ban.


Sorry the nation didn't give you enough "haha, see we're right" attention.

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Media deflecting this tragedy to Dylan Roof..."this shooting is whitey's fault."

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So a black attacks a white church, and leaves a letter repeatedly referencing a white man attacking a black church. These are facts, but reporting on facts is now somehow wrong?

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"Quality" is as or more important than quantity

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In other words, "when an argument is objectively refuted, I change the argument to something subjective, so I can always change the argument and never be wrong, even going as far as arguing against factually correct titles."

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Are you saying that the two stories received the same amount of coverage from the MSM?

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Which 2 stories?

When's your next open mike?

Seriously, your act could work at a few spots around Alexandria

You've honed it enough, time to break it out under the marquees of cenla

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Well if this is true, I'm sure a simple Google search will provide evidence. Let's see what what find?

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I honestly had not heard about this story. So, I don't really think you can argue this has gotten as much coverage, even if you can find some coverage online.

That said, since I hadn't heard anything about it I clicked the first link and got the preview from the NYT:

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One person was killed and seven others were wounded after a gunman opened fire on Sunday at a church in Antioch, Tenn., near Nashville, officials said. The police said the gunman, who shot himself, was in custody.

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Anything missing from that first paragraph???

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Anything missing from that first paragraph???

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I'm not seeing it

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Wow each entity had like two stories on it?

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That was from a brief search. That same brief search for The Tennessean, the major local paper, reveals about 7 articles, and one is just announcing the funeral arrangements.

Maybe there just isn't that much more to report at this time. I mean if the local paper had 6 or 7 articles, 3 or 4 articles from national outlets seems about right.

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Wasn't on the tv cycle every 20 mins or non-stop like the Dylan Roof story?

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Yes it was. It also resulted in the death of a 9 people, Roof escaped and they had to capture him (with video), and a trial. In addition, he had a whole social media presence with disturbing videos about his views directory related to the basis of the massacre. That was another story in and of itself. Plus, he has a while documented history here, with family, classmates, etc., able to provide a glimpse into his behavior and beliefs.

So I wouldn't expect the Nashville shooting to be covered near as much since there were far fewer fatalities, the assailant was killed at the scene, and he does have the documented history as an immigrant.

But one other distinction between the two, is that Obama, as expected, actually focused his attention on it, just like Trump is focusing his attention in LV. That is a newsworthy story in and of itself, but it also draws more attention for the populace.

And where was Trump's attention at that time? On the NFL protests. He had 2 dozen tweets about the protests, and I can't find a single tweet or Google search that indicates even a single statement addressing the Church Shooting.

And where was our attention? It was on the NFL protests. From Sunday Morning through mid week, the vast majority of the topics in this board were about the protests. And it tax actually a local story for many of the posters here.

So how can people sit there and express outrage about the MSM's coverage, when we were all obsessed with some NFL players kneeling or sitting during the National Anthem. And apparently most didn't even bother do a basic search to find the articles that they actually provided. I'm guilty of getting caught up in the same thing, but I'm at least self-aware enough to know that I am just as guilty as the MSM, maybe even moreso.

Finally, since the majority who are demonizing the MSM are Trump supporter, how can you outraged about the MSM, when our own leader, who has the ability to direct our focus to events like this, spent the better larry of a week tweeting dozens of times about the protesseen but didn't tweet (or even say, from what I've seen) a single thing about the shooting.

If you're critical of the MSM, because the few articles about the shooting (plus I'm sure corresponding tweets about stories), how can you not be exponentially more critical of the leader of our nation failing to address it a single time and instead focusing on the NFL protests?

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Is your point that the two stories received the same amount of coverage from the MSM?

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Its incredible. Dudes writes page long replies of nothing

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When a white person does a mass shooting like Dylann Roof

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Killed 9 people.

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or the Las Vegas shooter,

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Biggest mass shooting in history.

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But when it’s a shooter like this

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That (thankfully) resulted in one death, and it got more coverage in the MSM than most murders will get in a newspaper in a major city. There were roughly 42 other murders that day too.

So if you wish it had mkre coverage, then the way for that to happen is for more to be murdered..of that preferable? Would 9 deaths like the Charleston shooting be better?

And what about your boy Mark Dice? He had 300,000 twitter followers. Since there were multiple stories in every MSM source, and he must have researched those sources to make the video, then he should have known it had happened. And if he cares so much go mad a video about the lack of coverage, why did he make 2 videos about the NFL last week, when those million combined views would have gone a long way to spreading awareness of this story. It's too late now, with the LV massacre.

But apparently, making videos about NFL protests, Dr Seuss, and the brain eating disorder of liberalism were more important issues to spread awareness to his large following, and the shooting didn't make the cut.

And apparently, since our president didn't say a single thing about it, it's really wasn't important at all to the most powerful person in the world. Now that NFL protests was clearly the issue of importance.