While the murders at Virginia Tech. must trouble all, not only in the United States but across this planet of ours, I am perturbed by the resulting flood of irresponsible, inaccurate and inflammatory journalism.
Over the last one week these murders, in many instances have been characterized with extreme exaggerations — “The largest shooting massacre in U.S. history,” screamed some news anchors. “The worst mass killing in 200 years!,” lamented one anchor.
Let’s see … two hundred years takes us back to the year 1807, right?
In 1890, 300+ Lakota Sioux Indians were slaughtered mercilessly at Wounded Knee by the United States government militia. A deliberate and direct mass killing of noncombatant women, men and children, a war crime, a crime of hate!
Prior to this in 1864, Colorado Territory militia of white settlers attacked a village of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians encamped on the eastern plains, killing 150+ women and children in what is now known as the Sand Creek Massacre.
Many more slaughters like these took place during that period in U.S history.
When media organizations report murders like the recent one in Virginia Tech., and wish to refer to the past, it is imperative that they do history some justice!
The slaughter of Indians and blacks in the yester years are conveniently pushed aside in favor of ‘alarmism’ and ‘distortionism’ in today’s TV and Radio.
What happened in Virginia must be put into proper perspective — 30+ innocent students and teachers have lost their lives needlessly. Sensationalizing this horrible event by continuosly broadcasting the killer’s manifesto for ratings, is a torturing insult to the families of the dead, and very selfish.
With the right wing media, as expected, this selfishness has metamorphosed into callous xenophobia — like hungry hyenas, they are twisting and using this issue to ‘transport’ their agenda of hate — using it to demonize and dehumanize immigrants (killer is a Korean immigrant). As far as I am concerned, this killer could have come from any part of the U.S. population, including the 70 million gun owners — white, black, muslim, Korean or immigrant, it is still murder and nothing else….Sean Hannity! [Sean Hannity is a Fox News Anchor-MORON]
What a shame!
Reference: Memorial opens at site of Indian massacre: 150+ Cheyanne, Arapaho were killed in 1864 revenge attack in Colorado.
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