11 people, including 3-year-old, shot at South Side park

[YankeeFan]

A 3-year-old shot in the face:

Eleven people, including a 3-year-old child, were shot at a Chicago park in the Back of the Yards neighborhood tonight, authorities said.

An Emergency Medical Services Plan 2 was called for the incident in the 1800 block of West 51st Street in the Back of the Yards neighborhood after emergency crews were called to the scene, according to the Chicago Fire Department's media office. There were reports of 10 people shot, according to the Fire Department. The attack took place about about 10:15 p.m.

One of the people shot was a young child, perhaps a 3-year-old, a source said, citing preliminary information. A total of 11 people were shot, including the 3-year-old, who was shot in the face, according to another source. The severity of the victims' injuries was not immediately known.

http://trib.in/15aiVZn

 

[Captain Obvious]

In the face!!

 

[YankeeFan]

Trolling. Now in stereo.

How is it different from Naval yard thread. Was that trolling also?

So, why doesn't this generate more of a response here, and/or wall-to-wall cable coverage?

Not enough fatalities?
A shooting in Chicago is a "dog bites man" story?
Potential embarrassment for the President?
An unwillingness to delve into the societal problems in the community where this happened?
Non-white victims?

 

[MisterCreosote]

As of 10:43 a.m. Eastern, it is the top story on Google News.

 

[LongTimeListener]

As of 10:43 a.m. Eastern, it is the top story on Google News.

Yes, but The Media isn't covering it. You don't know where that came from. You only know it wasn't from The Media.

 

[YankeeFan]

Can't find it on the Times front page.

And, a local Reverend is worried that the incident is being minimized because the victims are urban African-Americans.

The shooting was already drawing national attention early Friday, and the Rev. Corey Brooks, who was in the hospital with the wounded toddler Thursday night, said attention should be focused on this violence.

"If we minimize what happened in Back of the Yards, then we minimize life," said Brooks, drawing connections with mass shootings in Washington, D.C., Connecticut and Colorado in recent years. "We have to put the same value on lives, even if they are black lives in the city."

http://dnain.fo/15afZ48

 

[YankeeFan]

You think Lupica will get a front page story in the Daily News tomorrow about this shooting?

 

[YankeeFan]

Washington Post's site has a small link to an AP article, half way down the page, among a list of "More Headlines".

 

[Dick Whitman]

So, why doesn't this generate more of a response here, and/or wall-to-wall cable coverage?

Potential embarrassment for the President?

This is definitely what I think it is. Before Obama's presidency, shootings in the inner-city of Chicago and other big cities typically led the national newscasts.

 

[Chef2]

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

You're supposed to head to a doctor if your erection lasts more than four hours, not to SportsJournalists.com.

 

[Dick Whitman]

One overlooked, huge reason that I believe these stories don't get covered as much as the events would seem to merit: The people affected are not usually big newspaper buyers or news consumers in general. I probably know 1,000 or more people who live in Chicago. Back of the Yards might as well be the Third World for them. Covering it extensively would be as sound of a business decision as covering, as part of the daily news report, the goings on of a village in tribal Africa.

 

[YankeeFan]

Let's be honest, on the list of things that scares white people, a shooting is a park on the South side of Chicago doesn't rate very high.

A shooting at a school in Connecticut, or a movie theater in Colorado, or a Naval installation/office in Washington D.C. ranks much higher. They can relate to the victims. It could have been them, or their child, or their Uncle Charlie who works at the Navy Yard.

Poor black folks living on the South Side? They don't relate.

And, if the media can't whip folks up into a frenzy, what's the point?

 

[YankeeFan]

One overlooked, huge reason that I believe these stories don't get covered as much as the events would seem to merit: The people affected are not usually big newspaper buyers or news consumers in general. I probably know 1,000 or more people who live in Chicago. Back of the Yards might as well be the Third World for them. Covering it extensively would be as sound of a business decision as covering, as part of the daily news report, the goings on of a village in tribal Africa.

You stated it a little differently, but I was making the same point as you posted this.

 

[poindexter]

As a west coaster, I can unequivocally state that YankeeFan has opened my eyes to the shooting problem in Chicago.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Let's be honest, on the list of things that scares white people, a shooting is a park on the South side of Chicago doesn't rate very high.

A shooting at a school in Connecticut, or a movie theater in Colorado, or a Naval installation/office in Washington D.C. ranks much higher. They can relate to the victims. It could have been them, or their child, or their Uncle Charlie who works at the Navy Yard.

Poor black folks living on the South Side? They don't relate.

And, if the media can't whip folks up into a frenzy, what's the point?

Again: As honorable of a profession as journalism is, there still has to be some concession to covering the news that people reading said news actually care about. Therefore, Sports Illustrated doesn't cover Syria. Therefore, the Wall Street Journal doesn't cover Miley Cyrus's butt dance. Therefore, the New York Times doesn't cover a shooting in inner-city Chicago.

And you're obsessed with A1. How many times did Trayvon Martin hit A1 in the Times? Maybe the arrest? Maybe the verdict?

 

[YankeeFan]

And you're obsessed with A1. How many times did Trayvon Martin hit A1 in the Times? Maybe the arrest? Maybe the verdict?

A lot more stories hit the front page of the Times website than land on A1.

 

[YankeeFan]

I think the Reverend, who's quote I posted, has a legitimate concern.

The media, who lectures America about race at every opportunity, doesn't value the lives of poor black folks like it does the lives of white suburbanites.

Black killings aren't as big a deal, unless they can sensationalize them. If they can inject race into the killing, it's a story. If they can use a killing to tell us that the greatest fear African-Americans parents have is that their child will be murdered by a white man on the way home from a snack run, it's a big story.

The media isn't even using this story to obsess about gun laws.

You'd think this would be huge, coming just days after the Navy Yard shooting, but the location of the shooting, and race of the victims means it's not.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Chicago's homicide problem has been covered quite extensively as a trend, rather than as one-off stories. Chicago's homicide problem has been a huge story, both nationally and locally.

 

[Mizzougrad96]

If 9-11 happened at the Sears Tower instead of the WTC, I wonder how that changes how it's covered.