Terrorist shooting in Australia

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GreyianStorm said:

Lawlight said:

Only 2 people died in the Sydney Siege. Only 12 people died in the Charlie Hebdo shooting. What's your logic there?

I'd be of the opinion that both of those events got far more airtime than they truly deserved. Particularly the Sydney Siege, as there isn't even certainty regarding links to terrorism.

The Charlie Hebdo shooting also had the element that a member of the press was invoved, and the rest of the media do not take threats to their people and attacks on freedom of press lightly. It might sound cheesy, but if the whole editorial demartment of a media outlet is attacked, with 12 people gunned down, the rest of the media is going to be in outrage all the more because it was one of their own.

 

I study illustration and can testify to this phenomenon first hand. In the time I've been studiyng there have been international news surges about India gangbangs, the arab spring, the factory collapse in bangladesh, the aurora shooting, the Anders Breivik attacks and an international refugee crisis. The only one of which had a real impact on my city being the last.

Yet the only one my illustration professor felt compelled to call for a tribute about, was the Charlie Hebdo shooting. Because he was a fellow illustrator, one of our own.