Just asking a question... which is a larger detriment to the USA... 37,461 dead Americans or 35 dead?

healthmyths

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Sep 19, 2011
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Now it is obvious which is the larger number for sure...37,461 is bigger therefore greater impact that 19,384.
Both of these deaths involved qualified individuals with a license to cause the deaths.
Facts:
NHTSA projects that an estimated 42,915 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes last year, a 10.5% increase from the 38,824 fatalities in 2020

In 2020, 54% of all gun-related deaths in the U.S. were suicides (24,292), while 43% were murders (19,384), according to the CDC.

Question... why does the MSM broadcast 7/24 shooting in schools that

In 2022 there were at least 77 incidents of gunfire on school grounds, resulting in 14 deaths and 45 injuries nationally.​

(Not counting Uvalde,TX shootings, which would bring total to 35 total deaths in the USA in school ground shootings
I'm not advocating for either side... Just trying to understand the angst that is generated by 35 deaths when In 2019,
608 child passengers age 12 and younger died in motor vehicle crashes
608 deaths in car accidents for children is over 17 times the number of kids killed by gunfire on school grounds.
17 times... yet no angst! No massive coverage! NO calls for cars to be taken off the road. No calls for AAA to be disbanded.
WHY??
 
Aren't most of us just a little tired of the MSM promoting BAD news?
FACT:
News coverage of current affairs is predominantly negative.
American accounts of this tendency tend to focus on journalistic practices, but this cannot easily account for negative news content around the world.
It is more likely that negativity in news is a product of a human tendency to be more attentive to negative news content. Just how widespread is this tendency?
Our evidence suggest that, all around the world, the average human is more physiologically activated by negative than by positive news stories. Even so, there is a great deal of variation across individuals.
The latter finding is of real significance for newsmakers: Especially in a diversified media environment, news producers should not underestimate the audience for positive news content.


So based on the above study... are you accepting of the MSM negative news coverage greater than other news?
 

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