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HereSince1628

(36,063 posts)
1. It wasn't a lone wolf mentally ill person on SSRIs...doesn't fit the meme
Tue Jan 22, 2013, 05:47 PM
Jan 2013

It had non-stop coverage for hours on the tee-vee.

More than an anti-meme story should have

MoonRiver

(36,926 posts)
2. It was what the gun madness has been leading to, a real Western type shootout
Tue Jan 22, 2013, 05:49 PM
Jan 2013

between two angry young men. How apropos, especially in Texas.

leftstreet

(36,078 posts)
3. It's not sensational with only 3 victims
Tue Jan 22, 2013, 05:49 PM
Jan 2013

If there had been 33 or 333 the media would be all over it

Like it or not, that's just the way it is

petronius

(26,580 posts)
6. Depends on what you mean by "hardly noticed" - but I see threads here
Tue Jan 22, 2013, 05:54 PM
Jan 2013

in GD, LBN, and the gungeon, and it's on the front of the LA Times, NY Times, and CNN (the only three places I looked).

I'd say it's getting the same amount of attention a shooting of this scale has always received, if not a little more...

ManiacJoe

(10,136 posts)
7. Given the number of duplicate threads on this shooting,
Tue Jan 22, 2013, 05:54 PM
Jan 2013

I would say that the news is not going unnoticed.

I would also say that not of the articles are worth reading due to the severe lack of data in them due to the desire to sacrifice journalism for beating the competitors post time with the empty article.

MoonRiver

(36,926 posts)
8. CNN pundit just said
Tue Jan 22, 2013, 06:05 PM
Jan 2013

that since the shooters used small pistols and weren't clearly insane this really is of little consequence.

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