Jay’s Analysis
has covered mass shootings in the past, having highlighted key patterns
that always emerge in events given major media attention. These are
important to analyze because shootings, disappearances, kidnappings
occur fairly regularly, yet curiously only certain “stories” are chosen
for exclusive media focus for weeks on end. Why might that be? Why is
Dylan “Storm Roof” chosen as
the media spectacle at the Charleston, SC shooting at the AME Church on June 17th, yet a black man
shooting churchgoers is not, nor this black man
shooting whites for racial reasons?
As Dave McGowan has observed, in the ’70s and ’80s the great fear was
the omnipresent serial killer, supposedly always an intelligent,
middle-aged white male, and since Kent State or Columbine, the
transition has been made to the young, white mass shooter (or Cho-Seung
Hui). (Charleston is also the location of the dubious black church
burnings of the ’90s).
READ MORE:
http://www.zengardner.com/charleston-shooting-evidence-stagecraft/
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