I’ll never understand complaints about things like this being “memory holed.”Every new day sees thousands of newspapers in this country alone posting and printing new stories about terrible things happening. We cannot possibly remember all of them. And what are media outlets supposed to do with these things, report on every last little detail for an event that only killed two people, including the shooter? Forever?
This is similar to complaints that people stopped paying attention to Ukraine once Israel and Palestine started popping off again. Like yeah guys, that’s how news and our perception of linear time works. New things happen and old things stop being focused on as much because new things have happened and we want to talk about the new things instead. Very normal.
Most importantly, the media just tends not to do that very in-depth coverage on or profiles of mass shooters themselves these days. Who knows anything about the Uvalde shooter? There was a weird little rumor he was a tranny, but I think it turned out he wasn’t, actually. Either way, we don’t know much about him the way we all knew everything about Nik Cruz because they just don’t really do that kind of thing anymore.
I’m not saying it isn’t tragic and fucked up, obviously, just that as far as the news is concerned, it’s just not that big of a deal. You can say that the news won’t pick this story up much because the shooter is a tranny, but the truth is more so that KF wouldn’t have featured this story at all if he wasn’t because kids are shot in America literally every day