The media seems like its moving on from Parkland. But the data hints that the gun control debate

[applegrove]

is persisting.

By Alvin Chang at Vox

https://www.vox.com/2018/3/2/17070714/parkland-media-fatigue-data

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The data reveals that even though the conversation around the shooting itself is fading, the attention on gun control is actually persisting; it’s staying in America’s consciousness longer than virtually any other time in recent memory. And it means this time period is crucial for gun control activists who want to keep this conversation going.

The media is talking more about gun control than we were at this point after Sandy Hook

What’s been fascinating about the media cycle on gun control is how consistent it has been since the Florida shooting.

After other major shootings, like at Sandy Hook Elementary School and the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, there were massive spikes that faded away quickly. This time, though, we’re seeing several spikes in coverage that push attention past that two-week window:

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[Vinca]

1. The GOP is moving on. McConnell is bringing up bank legislation, not guns.

Dems have to regain power.

[DavidDvorkin]

2. It's the American way.

[Fullduplexxx]

3. Well of course , the bodies of dead kids are just speed bumps on the march to freedumb

[guillaumeb]

4. That would make an incredible poster for the March 24 action.

May I borrow it?

[Fullduplexxx]

6. Yes you may ...

[agincourt]

5. Now that we have an official Trump supporter as a mass murderer

a lot of Right wingers are squealing about bullying at school. The very same assholes who were taunting school anti-bullying programs as safe zones for snowflakes a couple years ago. When one of their people gets in the news, NOW we have a bullying crisis. The ever present cosmic adjuster.