Brittany Robinson recently wrote about teen violence. I include an excerpt:
[…]the number of student victims lost in the Virginia Tech massacre is the same number of teen victims we lose to gun violence in our country every four days.
That may be a little hard to swallow. These are the kinds of statistics that we sometimes don’t want to know, because we’d rather be in denial about the state of violence among our country’s adolescents than to know the extent to which their lives are being lost everyday.
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Full-blown massacres on college campuses may warrant extensive coverage, because they involve so many deaths occurring at once. But is it any less significant that we’re idly sitting back as teenagers pick each other off one at a time? Waiting for climactic gunning events to discuss teen violence should not be the strategy of our nation. The young lives we lose every day deserve attention and solutions, as well.
I completely agree with what Brittany Robinson says in that article.
For the sake of ratings, major news outlets over-report shocking stories, such as incidental massacres. However, the mega-corporations that own the major news outlets have no interest in changing our society for the better. They’re lazy and rich, and they don’t want anything to change. As a result, these news outlets don’t report on the major but fixable problems that plague our world on a day-to-day basis, such as teen violence.
What do you think?
