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<blockquote data-quote="bball" data-source="post: 1488726" data-attributes="member: 23752"><p>Media, did not do this in a vacuum or on their own.</p><p></p><p>I didnt imply that media did it in a vacuum. I am keenly aware that the media has plenty of folks engaged via web, television, radio or paper. Are you implying that we all are culpable since we consume their product? Similar to the pornography debate, the consumer is just as culpable as the producer because without the consumer there would be no purpose for the product?</p><p></p><p>In several of my posts i have pointed out many of the issues surrounding this topic, including families, govt agencies, school officials, society as a whole and the media. Specifically, the media isnt banging the drums about the loss of over 4500 children to drug overdose in 2016. Its not sensational enough. It wont generate the clicks that one of these fairly rare(thankfully) unfortunate events does. 120 people die every day from drug overdose in this country. A fair number of them are children. Does anyone know? Or care?(other than the family) Hard to say. The war on drugs was 'hot' for the media back in the 80s. Today, its kids shooting up schools. By your own admission, you believe the media provides a vehicle to continue this behavior because the shooters do this for the notoriety(paraphrase).</p><p>My point is these events are being utilized and manipulated by many in media and other agenda driven organizations to advance their agenda; when there are significantly greater threats to our youth on a percentage basis. This is disingenuous at the least.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bball, post: 1488726, member: 23752"] Media, did not do this in a vacuum or on their own. I didnt imply that media did it in a vacuum. I am keenly aware that the media has plenty of folks engaged via web, television, radio or paper. Are you implying that we all are culpable since we consume their product? Similar to the pornography debate, the consumer is just as culpable as the producer because without the consumer there would be no purpose for the product? In several of my posts i have pointed out many of the issues surrounding this topic, including families, govt agencies, school officials, society as a whole and the media. Specifically, the media isnt banging the drums about the loss of over 4500 children to drug overdose in 2016. Its not sensational enough. It wont generate the clicks that one of these fairly rare(thankfully) unfortunate events does. 120 people die every day from drug overdose in this country. A fair number of them are children. Does anyone know? Or care?(other than the family) Hard to say. The war on drugs was 'hot' for the media back in the 80s. Today, its kids shooting up schools. By your own admission, you believe the media provides a vehicle to continue this behavior because the shooters do this for the notoriety(paraphrase). My point is these events are being utilized and manipulated by many in media and other agenda driven organizations to advance their agenda; when there are significantly greater threats to our youth on a percentage basis. This is disingenuous at the least. [/QUOTE]
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