—*At least 66 people were shot in Chicago*, the vast majority young black kids
—The morning/eve news networks spent *101+ mins* running PR for Smollett’s story & NEAR ZERO on those shootings
Or media covering their cases?
Luckily “this isn’t about the media” as “high quality new orgs were very careful” in their Smollett coverage, so says @brianstelter 🙄
1. From @robbystarbuck:
2. From @Cameron_Gray:
66+ shootings: chicagotribune.com/news/data/ct-s…
101 mins on news nets: newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curti…
@brianstelter quotes: grabien.com/story.php?id=2… and grabien.com/story.php?id=2…