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Originally Posted by Grisey
Sadly this isn't that far from where i grew up and i have a couple of old school friends that live in Whitehaven atm
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what gets me is that its only big news as its a middle class (sort of) white area and a shotgun (i think it was a shotgun) was used.
yet, almost (and i do mean almost) each day on the uk news somone is killed with a knife. its just gets a mention. ok, you could say 12 people were killed - but today they found 3 dead (one a child) (
link) and it was not even on the news.
it reminds me of that documentery that american chap did on guns. he said things like this are only news becase the media (news) make it a big story.
the news shows were loving it. they got there reporters out on a nice day and had it on 24/7.
i bet if this had been some inner city part of london or manchester and a black kid had shot some black kids, it would not be a story.
but becase it was a nice place and white middle class, its a story.
they draged out all the experts today, to give there views.
and they will milk the story for as long as they can (till england play in the world cup i bet).