Mass shootings: When the lefthand media won't report them

The definition of a mass shooting is not always agreed upon but the FBI defines a a "mass murder" as: "four or more murdered during an event with no "cooling-off period" between the murders." From this we can probably agree that a mass shooting is when "four or more people are shot or killed, not including the shooter."

Second Amendment haters in the media love to report mass shootings. "If it bleeds it leads." But when the shootings happen in an inner city like, say, Chicago or Washington, D.C, the media is often too busy to take the time to report it.

Last night, [Monday] Fox News' Tucker Carlson discussed a mass shooting that went down in Washington, D.C. over the weekend, but the mainstream media mostly ignored the story because, as Carlson explained, it failed to "help the Biden campaign."

The shooting left one teenager dead and a police officer struggling for her life. Of the 20 shot, 11 victims were women, all African-American.

Carlson did his own verbal shooting at the media:

"Twenty-one people were shot in this single incident ... more than half of them were women. One was a D.C. Police officer. It was the single biggest mass shooting in America this year and yet you probably heard nothing about it," the host said. "Members of Congress didn’t lock arms on the House floor to demand an end to the gun violence, CNN didn't book a procession of weepy teenage gun-control activists ... news organizations barely touched the story and when they did, they moved fast."

Carlson went on:

"As far as we can tell, neither CNN or MSNBC even mentioned it today. Now they acted like it didn't happen, but it did happen. Twenty-one African-Americans shot by gunmen and yet the media spent all weekend telling you about how Simon Cowell fell off his electric bike in Malibu because really, Black Lives Matter."

So do black lives really matter to Black Lives Matter? Do they matter to the left in general?

Do they matter to Joe Biden, who remains mum on the shooting and still having his wife do his press interviews as he remains out of public scrutiny unless he has a TelePrompter to read from?

Discussing the mass shooting wouldn’t be helpful to Biden’s campaign so they ignored it, Carlson asserted. It would expose Democratic-run inner cities for the lawless enclaves that they are.

Carlson's tweet says it all:

Tucker: Dead bodies don't count unless they are politically useful https://t.co/MGVGzuavNF— Leah Barkoukis (@LeahBarkoukis) August 11, 2020

Maybe CNN's Brian Stelter can explain his decision to forgo this story.


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