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El Paso, Dayton, Chicago: Media doesn't treat all gun violence the same usatoday.com/story/news/nat… via @usatoday
El Paso, Dayton, Chicago: Media doesn't treat all gun violence the same usatoday.com/story/news/nat… via @usatoday
Fifty-nine people were shot in Chicago, including seven fatally, over the weekend in mostly poor, black neighborhoods on the city’s South and West sides.
But, as the nation grieved over mass shootings in El Paso, and Dayton, that left 31 dead, the daily tragedy of gun violence in the nation’s 3rd largest city – which recorded 42 homicides in the first 28 days of July – made hardly a blip with nat’l news outlets & cable networks.
Gary Slutkin, founder of Cure Violence, an organization that fights violence as a health epidemic, suggests that the El Paso and Dayton shootings received more attention, because of their political salience.
A survey of recent media coverage by The Trace found that major national media outlets dedicated airtime to the mass shooting in Gilroy, CA, but largely ignored another terrifying shooting incident in Brooklyn, that took place less than 24 hours earlier.
The incident at the Gilroy Garlic Festival shooting left three people dead and at least 12 wounded.
The shooting near a Brownsville park left one dead and 11 wounded.
While the Brownsville shooting was covered by 2 national news website homepages for several hours, the Gilroy shooting received an average of 14 hours on the homepages of six national news websites, as well as 20x more broadcast time.
