After New Zealand mosque attack, I won´t watch the news coverage of another mass shooting
USA Today,
by
Michael J. Stern
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
3/17/2019 6:23:34 AM
I’ve lived most of my adult life inside the blood-stained walls of people doing horrible things to one another. At the age of 26, while a state prosecutor outside of Detroit, I spent the better part of a year prosecuting a 17-year-old with a long criminal history who escaped from juvenile detention, broke into a house, and shot a hole through a young father’s head while he was sitting at his desk working from home. As a federal prosecutor, I ran the FBI investigation into a gang leader who decided it was cheaper to murder his drug supplier than pay
Reply 1 - Posted by:
chumley 3/17/2019 7:26:58 AM (No. 3536)
Completely understandable. We are drowning in a sea of news and it takes its toll even if we don´t see it right away.
We have no control of events happening outside our immediate lives, so why torture yourself?
I check here a few times a day and put Fox on for an hour in the morning and evening. No more constantly battering myself with a world full of evil. My stress has been reduced markedly.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
doublesharp 3/17/2019 9:10:09 AM (No. 3537)
Shut FOX down completely. Judge Pirro needs the viewers to have her back. No FOX period.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Edgelady 3/17/2019 9:20:49 AM (No. 3531)
Was in Austin when Whitman started shooting. Have long since stopped watching wall to wall broadcasts of such events.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Namma 3/17/2019 9:22:15 AM (No. 3525)
Don’t worry about watching or hearing of people being killed. Seems the only people that matter are mooozies. Christians being slaughtered is just not news worthy. 38 women and children being cut down is not news worthy.
128 Christians being killed in Nigeria is just not worth reporting. The mooozies have sworn there will be retailiation for the killings in N Z. But that’s ok. The world deserves it. Done with Fox News. And any other source that supports non Christians. Done!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
kbcama 3/17/2019 9:53:32 AM (No. 3526)
When my late husband began showing signs of dementia, he became obsessed with the news (Fox News). His anxiety levels were terrible. How, he would ask repeatedly, will our grandchildren ever have a good life like we’ve had?. Our wonderful doctor who is our age and has been our doctor for over 30 years gave him a prescription. Written on the prescription pad were these words: No more news! It truly helped. I too as one poster remarked get most of my news from Lucianne. I like Tucker and some Laura on Fox but do not make it a nightly habit. It’s a great prescription- try it!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
ZeldaFitzg 3/17/2019 10:08:17 AM (No. 3529)
I don´t watch news, even the sainted FoxNews. Have not for several years now.
I get my news online and thus do not have to sit through the pundits´ silly irrelevant jabber.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
janjan 3/17/2019 10:31:17 AM (No. 3538)
These stories draw viewers. People who are bored or just addicted to drama. The media are always going to cover it and if they can get live footage of the killing even better. Then they put on their sad faces and blame it on a Republican politician or all gun owners. After a week life goes on. I would rather not participate.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Lucky5 3/17/2019 11:33:05 AM (No. 3532)
Each of us are responsible for our own sphere of influence. The place we live, our families and the people we interact with. The world news and American news just bleats out horror and hate 24/7. Things we have zero control over.
I only read the news, and I try to pray, and focus on what good I can do in my own personal "sphere". Life is much happier that way.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
red1066 3/17/2019 11:51:58 AM (No. 3533)
All the news programs and newspaper articles titled NATION MOURNS, is BS. I´ll bet most people in New Zealand went about their business as usual trying not to think about it. Fact is, the 24/7 news cycle has desensitized most people to such events. Like crying wolf. After a while one just puts their head down and moves on.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
ROLFNader 3/17/2019 12:18:07 PM (No. 3534)
The media , in general , is so lazy that most only come alive when there is a mass shooting ,a hurricane or a bombing. That is because they don´t have to do anything but talk behind a mic in front of a camera. Their greatest talent lies in pretending that they are having trouble standing up in high winds in their L.L.Bean raincoats with price tags still attached.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bighambone 3/17/2019 1:38:53 PM (No. 3535)
The liberal domestic and international media is now blaming President Trump for instigating the nut job in New Zealand to murder 50 Muslims.
But that nut job would never have known anything about Trump’s political agenda to secure the US borderline to keep smuggled contraband, illicit narcotics and illegal aliens out of the USA and to ensure that potential Islamist terrorists from gaining entry to the USA, if those media organization had not created false and misleading reports around the world to the effect that Trump’s efforts were racist and in keeping with “White Supremacy”. Such bogus reporting is bound to hurt the USA and encourage unstable individuals to engage in all sorts of very serious crimes as happened in New Zealand.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 3/17/2019 3:21:53 PM (No. 3530)
Twenty or fifty Christians killed by Muslims for ever one the other way.
THAT is the story.
This is a ´man bites dog´ story, backwards from the "accepted norm" of Muslims regularly murdering huge numbers of Christians.
How much coverage when the Egyptian Muslims locked the Coptic Christians in their church and burned them alive? Very, very, VERY little. One mention, one day, and move on, nothing of interest to see here, they are only Christians, no outrage.
Enough.
Islam is a vicious, murderous death cult whose primary religious duty is to convert, enslave or kill all who are not Muslims and pretending otherwise is suicide. Literally.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 3/17/2019 3:21:56 PM (No. 3528)
It´s violence porn, snuff video, and it sells. That´s all they care about.
Law enforcement does NOT want to use the names of these murderers because it´s what they want. Most mass-murderers have lived unexciting lives and are nobodies who arrogantly must be remembered for something. To mention the names of the Parkland or Columbine High School murderers is glorifying them to the next mass-murdering wannabe watching the new.
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