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Why Did CNN Refuse To Humanize The Shooting In a Chicago Hospital?
When the horrific mass shooting held a quaint family-friendly suburb in Pittsburgh under siege, major cable networks, notably CNN, immediately jumped to the assignment of concentrated coverage that lasted for weeks.
The dramatics were necessary when you consider that the scope of the tragic event covered the gamut of the systemized dysfunction that allows innocent lives of decent Americans to be direly vulnerable to the lack of governance — that keeps the plague of gun violence and racially-motivated crimes consistently activated.
In the midst of the terrorizing weeks that included the bomb packages being deployed to various notable individuals, and the news organization the president loves to hate, there was another terrifying hate crime that took place during that time period, that didn’t get nearly enough attention as the other incidents.
The victims were Maurice Stallard, 69, and Vicki Lee Jones, 67.
They were both gunned down by a White male terrorist, in and around the Kroger grocery store in Louisville, Kentucky, and for some weird reason it took too long for CNN to add this particular item to the list of atrocities that all seemed to transpire within days of each other.
