This is gonna be a short diary, because I'm not sure I can bring myself to type much about this without losing it. Two weeks ago the Aurora shooting took over media coverage in this country for at least 4 days. Yesterday, a similar massacre took place, and as far as I can tell, the story is pretty much over. Why??
The question has two fairly simple answers: 1.) The shooter was a white-supremacist, who probably unquestionably had right-wing views, and any discussion of that will not be allowed to stand in the corporate media and 2.) The victims were the wrong color, meaning they were not white. Never mind that that is the EXACT reason they were targeted in the first place. Am I missing something here?? Even the liberal blogs and social media seem to be treating this like an afterthought. I'm at a loss.....