| The Fury said: Question, as a British man who doesn't understand media in the US when reporting murders. How many of the US daily murders are reported in the news? Racially motivated or not. |
As an Irish guy living in the US, trust me when I say this. The murders are reported locally and very few are reported nationwide. It's such a different system in the us Compared to european countries such as Ireland or the UK. Imagine if most people watched Euro news and didn't bother with BBC or RTE in their respective markets. That's the how many of my friends are here. So local channels the equivalent of your British BBC report the murders but those channels are nowhere near the importance of viewership of the BBC equivalent. Most people watch Fox News or CNN (equivalent to a Europe wide news channel) and these channels rarely if ever report a murder if it isn't political or a massive racism argument.
FYI in Chicago alone, there were over 400 murders last year. Chicago is three times the size of Dublin. The entirity of Ireland had under 50 murders last year. Further, Irelands figure counts manslaughter. The Chicago number doesn't. (scweing numbers in the US is quite common, similar to how if you check out population figures, they calculate them quite differently to make cities seem larger). Chicago is only a city. If they reported all of those murders......well...they might need a channel dedicated to just murders.
