If a story can be used to push their agenda (right or left) a media outlet "makes" news when they decide 1) if it is worthy of their coverage, and 2) what aspects of that story they cover and the aspects they either downplay or omit all together.
It is not that a police shooting an unarmed person is so common that it can't be covered, because the actual official FBI statistics show that 1) it is not as common as the media would like to portray it to be, and 2) the number of unarmed white people shot by police is double, or higher, than the number of unarmed black people shot by police each year. ANY time it happens it should be reported, not just when the victim is black, as the majority of the media believes it should be. The same is true of police abuse of power, in my opinion. |
