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Showing posts with label random violent crime. Show all posts
Showing posts with label random violent crime. Show all posts

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Random, unusual deaths and violent crimes in the news

From Fox News this morning, one of their top four stories on the web:


So, some BAD parents make a child run, in ALABAMA, and that child dies. Should this story matter to me in North Carolina (or even if I lived in Alabama for that matter)?

The girl, Savannah Hardin, was a third-grader at Carlisle Elementary School. Superintendent Alan Cosby said: "This is obviously a very tragic, devastating, heartbreaking situation," Cosby said. "Nothing like this has ever happened before."

Which is why it is news!

Notice what Fox did below that story too. It linked the story to an accidental school shooting in Seattle and the trial outcome of the UVA Lacrosse player who murdered his ex-girlfriend.

this fits in nicely with facts of media coverage of crime laid out in the book.

Monday, December 19, 2011

Will this crime be in the news?

Violent? Check!

Check!

Bizarre? Check!

Innocent victim? Check!

Man who looks depraved or crazy? Check!

Is the offender a black male? Check!

Yes, then it will be in the news.

http://news.yahoo.com/suspect-nyc-womans-burning-appears-court-180131954.html


Be afraid. Be very afraid.