It goes without saying that those responsible for such attacks should be strongly condemned and prayers go out to all the victims of such attacks.
That being said, it is a travesty how the media covers such events and why they cover it that way. It seems as if there is a template dragged out or memorized by anchors across the self-loathing American Media the second that news breaks of any tragic attack or shooting.
The way this template reads is as follows:
- Breaking News: Terror and/or shooting
- Analysis: Why this is or could be a “rightwing” or “tea party”type extremist attack.
- Analysis: Why rightwingers should be marginalized or possibly incarcerated.
- Breaking News: Terrorist is an Islamic extremist OR liberal leaning medicated nut job.
- Analysis: It must have been a “lone wolf”.
- Analysis: We need to understand why this person was so angry/ what we did wrong.
