Nobody else on Rof had noticed, great spot. 

Eh, point of this post was not to let people know about shooting!  It was about media coverage of it...Keep up.

Yup I reckon the shooter is sitting in a jail cell right now scrolling through the Daily Mail headlines.

Mass murder is mass murder however you dress it up. 

Why do you care?  Why does it bother you that some people somewhere think that the death of, in this case, three 9 year olds, and three adults, is noteworthy?

Because news is about choices, if US shootings are covered prominently it is at the expense of something else.  Given the numbers of shootings I just don't think mass shootings in the US are any longer major international news stories.   Apart from anything else it is boring as everybody always says exactly the same thing and nothing ever changes.

Well, that's utter bullsh1t right there!

Perhaps, in the olden days of print news, with a finite number of pages available to report events, that may have been the case, but are you seriously trying to argue that in this day and age of The Internet, with approximately one gajillion news sites and the pressures of filling "air" to keep up with a 24 hour news cycle, there is a danger that this might take up all the space?

You are ridiculous.

I'm not suggesting that you fall to the ground rending your cloth and wailing with grief, or even that you have to care about it particularly.  But the fact that apparently, the mere existence of reporting about the untimely deaths of 6 people is irritating to you (so much so that choosing not to read it is not good enough, you want it stopped, because down with this sort of thing!!!!) makes me wonder if it isn't time you switched off the internet for a while, and spent some time remembering how to be a person.

Cruella, of course all the news in the world is on the internet but the major news outlets have to make editorial decisions.     People suffer untimely deaths many of them violent all over the world every day the vast majority are not covered by international news.     I suppose my irritation really is not so much the coverage of the event itself but the handwringing afterwards that is always the same and nothing ever gets done about it.

Okay, I agree with that last part - it is frustrating, as a foreigner, to watch the Americans get all teary eyed and prayerful (thoughts and prayers, people, thoughts and prayers) every time something like this happens, while they ignore the obvious solution of getting rid of some of the fvcking guns, and making it less easy for every fvcker who wants one to have one of the fvcking guns!

Although, I am curious to see how this plays out if it turns out to be true that the shooter was trans - I can well imagine that the only thing that might make them rethink their gun nuttery is the realisation that one of Those People got their hands on a gun. (This being America, of course, they're probably more likely to try to actually try to officially make being trans illegal, than focus on their gun problem).

We've had 129 mass shootings so far this year, and the vast majority of them are not reported by the BBC.

There was a teacher on Instagram who wants more funding for schools and security...when really the answer is gun control and healthcare...

But hey-ho!  There's another 300 million people where that came from...

That is true Ash, I think only the ones where somebody shoots random people are covered rather than gang and family feuds etc which account for most mass shootings.

Cru I suspect they'll some how blame it on it being a religious school and nothing to do with guns.  Seems that if it comes to a choice they'll criticise God but not guns.

UK media is covering these shootings, not because it's news per se, but because of us.  We, the great British public, just love to look at America and go "how terrible, all those crazies being able to get hold of guns".