08-07-2019, 08:23 AM
(08-07-2019, 06:18 AM)727Sky Wrote: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/neil-d...atest_news
Quote:Celebrity astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson got an earful Sunday on Twitter after an ill-advised tweet in the aftermath of Saturday’s two horrific mass shootings that left at least 29 people dead.
The killings don’t really matter in the big picture, deGrasse Tyson seemed to say, it’s just that darn human empathy that makes them seem so bad.
“In the past 48hrs, the USA horrifically lost 34 people to mass shootings,” he wrote, claiming, “on average, across any 48hrs, we also lose… 500 to Medical errors, 300 to the Flu, 250 to Suicide, 200 to Car Accidents, 40 to Homicide via Handgun. Often our emotions respond more to spectacle than to data.”
The thing is, Tyson isn't far-wrong. The media are the ones to blame in regards of promoting outrage of a particular inicdent.
Chicago's shootings and deaths went un-sensationalised over the weekend because the MSM get better ratings using the 'white
-on-black' perception.
However, the astrophysicist's comments have to pass the same Gate-Keepers to be aired and if they cast doubt on the media,
it's massaged into an insult instead of merely data.
But he isn't wrong.
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