Another Louisiana shooting is reported today in the news. It's your run-of-the-mill domestic squabble.
Although we've been seeing a mention or two of Louisiana incidents in the media lately, it still seems a far cry from what it should be compared to Chicago and Baltimore. NOLA alone has three or four murders a week.
Why are they so under-reported?
Please leave a comment.
"NOLA alone has three or four murders a week."
ReplyDeleteAnd Chicago averages about 8.8 per week. What's your point?
My point is we don't read about New Orleans except once every blue moon. Chicago is there every day.
ReplyDeleteYes, and you claimed that you used google for your news. As I pointed out the last time you mentioned it, where you get your news from matters.
ReplyDeleteWhy don't you try this:
http://neworleanswebsites.com/cat/ne/lt/lt.html
or this:
http://neworleanswebsites.com/cat/ne/lp/lp.html
I doubt you'll miss a single gun-death that way.
Anonymous, That's the whole point. Without going to a site specializing in Chicago news, just using google and yahoo, there are tons of stories. For NOLA, you need to go to a site which is about New Orleans.
ReplyDeleteIt's like Clayton Cramer's old site (did he shut it down?). He had people from all over the country scouring every regional and local newspaper for DGU stories. Then he posted them one after another. In google and yahoo there were very few. I concluded there are not nearly as many DGUs as some people say. Can we conclude the same about the murders in NOLA. I don't think so. That's the mystery.
"That's the whole point. Without going to a site specializing in Chicago news, just using google and yahoo, there are tons of stories. For NOLA, you need to go to a site which is about New Orleans."
ReplyDeleteBecause people are used to there being tons of deaths in Chicago, it gets reported. Because Chicago is Chicago, and there are tons of news outlets in Chicago.
Let me put it this way. If the rates keep up in NOLA, you'll soon see it happen that there are lots of new outlets covering the high rate of murders.
In Los Angeles County, there were 863 homicides in 2008. That's 16.6 a week. A little more than 2.2 a day. Are you seeing those? I submit, it's been going on for so long in Los Angeles that it has become old news, unless someone does it "differently."
NOLA is an aberration. There's a lot happening in lots of places. Not everything is newsworthy, even though you might think it is.