I just say a report of a guy killing a woman because she would not go out with him <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/4N3N1MlvVc4" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Mad World Rocket River
Family argument? Hard to imagine being a mom for 22 years, then just snap over a family argument in some way that escalate to killing her two daughters. She chased and shot them to death. Crazy. Wouldn't being surprising that she has a known mental illness. And that she has access to gun even with that illness. http://nypost.com/2016/06/25/mom-kills-two-daughters-is-fatally-shot-by-police/
say 16 years ago, this would have been only been news in the local paper, now everything 'sensational' is on the internet.... for about a day till something else happens awareness/reality violent crime is statistically down but we are more aware of it
Well I'm betting that the daughters wish their mom never had a gun. They wouldve had a much better chance of surviving.
this. I sometimes try to imagine our modern horror-obsessed media working in, say, 1885 America. The grisly, gruesome and just abominable stories could have run 24/7 with no repeats. LOL.
The world is smaller through near real time communication. It is really good especially for part of the world that has been isolated or less informed. More positive than negative in my book.
Not to derail from this tragedy, but I honestly don't think humans can handle the bandwidth. We evolved to conceive of a max of 150 other human beings. Our circuits, as evolved, as just being fried. That's why people are turning away from facts in such droves and why they are embracing tribalism. (And why depression and anxiety are on a marked rise). Just my happy two cents!
She probably either felt underappreciated or that she was losing control. One of those girls was old enough to drink and maybe finishing college, the other one was about to start senior year, and dad had already separated. Maybe she was about to lose custody of the younger girl before the last year of high school, and the older daughter had already cut her off emotionally, while presenting a questionable influence to the younger sister.
One could say media was as sensationalist back then, if not necessarily as ubiquitous or efficient at continuous delivery and production; but they were more obsessed with Papists or suffragettes than violent crime, and readers would have needed that demographic context to calibrate their reaction.
I think you're on to something there Bob. I have to constantly, consciously, frame news, bad news in particular, in a more historical and global perspective to keep from being overwhelmed by it and to try and get a more accurate picture of where we are and where we're going.