Comment on Why don't we hear more about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting? It was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, we never found a motive, and it seems no one ever mentions it.

yarr@feddit.nl ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Whenever I see posts like this, I wonder about the benchmark being set.

I don’t know what OP wants… a weekly news story: “VEGAS SHOOTING STILL NOT SOLVED, NEWSPAPER EDITORS SEEK ALTERNATE HEADLINES”

DB Cooper was one of the most mysterious hijackers of all time. Still no motive, why don’t we hear about it more often?

Zodiac killer, active for years on the West Coast. No known motive… why don’t we hear about it? Why does no one mention it?

Jack the Ripper, killed women brutally, unsolved, no known motive. Why isn’t he mentioned more often?

This line of thinking drives me crazy. Our current news ecosystem thrives off cheap clickbait and manufactured outrage. Barring some radical new information, they won’t get that out of the Vegas shooting, hence it doesn’t make headlines routinely.

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