Always think about this now, it seems (to me) once we start getting close to a election cycle they all the sudden either ramp up, or the media gives them more coverage.
They don’t need anything or anyone to make us look dangerous. They hate our guts, and we are their enemies. They want us disarmed, and destroyed. Period.
I think it is the latter. Crazy people are gonna be crazy and occasionally do horrible things, regardless of what is going on in our nation or the world. What changes is that occasionally somebody needs a flashy headline on a slow news day, or was told they have an agenda to push.
This is a heck of a lot more than a flashy headline.
agreed, but a new organization sees everything as a headline/story or not.This is a heck of a lot more than a flashy headline.
Red Flag?
"if it bleeds, it leads"This is a heck of a lot more than a flashy headline.
The phrase has an interesting, and OLD, history:
If It Bleeds, It Leads: Crime Reporting - Blogs - International Council for Media Literacy
Mug shots. Blood. Yellow police tape. Crime reporting has become ubiquitous in local and national news, but is crime itself more prevalent?
ic4ml.org
In news broadcasting, there is the saying, “if it bleeds it leads.” The phrase dates back to the end of the 1890s. William Randolph Hearst coined the phrase after seeing that the stories involving horrific incidents were the ones that caught the public’s attention.
As it turns out these stories are easy to produce. The Philadelphia Inquirer’s reporter Layla A. Jones commented on crime reporting in an article titled, “Lights. Camera. Crime.”
“Crime was cheap to cover. It was easy to cover,” says Jones. “[The assignment desk] said to the cameraman ‘You shoot the scene, you shoot the blood, you shoot the victims, whatever they got, and you can do it in 20 seconds.”
Red flag has become a hot button issue, but at some point, an “intervention” for someone who is exhibiting irrational or psychotic behavior is just logical and prudent.
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