In The News

Mrs. Ipsa went to college in Tennessee and served her internship in Virginia. She still has friends there and keeps tabs on things in that area of the world. On Sunday she asked me if I had heard about a church shooting outside of Nashville. I hadn't. So I went looking for it.
The story wasn't predominantly featured on any of the news outlets I checked out. Of course I Googled "Church Shooting" and Google auto filled the Tennessee part. That tells me that plenty of other people were searching for the same story. Google provided me with a link to a Fox News Story.

The link I've given gives a fairly straight forward report of the events of the shooting.  It's not sensationalized.  It's a report that basically states, "this happened" and then "this happened" with some quotes from people who were involved.  Which is a correct way to report on this type of story.  It's also not representative of what I've seen as "news reports" concerning the shooting.

What happened was a black immigrant from a Muslim country shot up a church of mostly white folks.  The major news outlets don't seem to want to report that.  I'm not saying that the headlines should have been sensationalized to point out his race and immigration status or even that he is from a Muslim country.  With a name like Emanuel Kidega Samson he might not have even been a Muslim.

It seems suspicious that the news media only discovered that a black guy shot up a white church after they ran their initial stories and decided that there was no real reason to keep the story as a lead, or even as front page material.  After the story was dropped from the top of the rotation the folks at CNN went back in and added the pertinent information, and foot noted that fact.