News Outlets Jumping the Gun?
By Four Walls
@FourWalls (76513)
United States
October 26, 2015 10:49pm CST
Pardon the pun there, but it seems that any time there's a gun-involved incident the media goes crazy.
Sunday night (10/25) the Twitter world lit up like a proverbial Christmas tree with reports of "an active shooter" on the campus of North Carolina Central University in Durham.
It turns out that it was one person who got shot after an argument.
An "active shooter" is someone who's out to slaughter people, not one guy fighting with another.
If this had taken place in a bar down the street from the college it would've hardly been noticed.
Grow up, media.
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@desertdawg (312)
• United States
27 Oct 15
Sensationalism sells. I am sure that will not be the first...or last time..the media gets it wrong. They should be a lot more responsible.
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