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posted by martyb on Monday October 02 2017, @04:18PM   Printer-friendly

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/02/554976369/section-of-las-vegas-strip-is-closed-after-music-festival-shooting

A gunman fired upon thousands of people attending a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip Sunday night, in a brutal attack that is blamed for at least 58 deaths, police say. In the mass shooting and panic that ensued, 515 people were injured. At least one of the dead is an off-duty police officer who was attending the concert.

Editorializing: Interesting how media always emphasize ISLAMIC terrorists, but downplay domestic terrorism as psychologically disturbed individual lone-wolfs.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @07:18PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 02 2017, @07:18PM (#576109)

    Its a mix, ratings are definitely part of it but probably more like an excuse that producers tell themselves when they push such stories out. Keeping US citizens divided is the key part, along with keeping law enforcement in the us/them mindset. It is much easier to get LEOs to do what you want when they have anger directed at every nameless citizen.