You Don't Hate The Media Enough
There is a BIG story in Canada right now about a school shooter in northern British Columbia (B.C.). There are not a lot of mass shootings in Canada, so when one happens, and it happens at a school, it is big news. But the coverage of this has been anything but honest. I was first hearing about this shooting last night, as my wife fed me tidbits as she found them. What my wife was telling me, in the approximate order that I heard it, was that there was a shooting in B.C., it was at a school, the suspected shooter was a "female in a dress with brown hair", 10 dead, 25 injured, the shooter killed themselves. As soon as I heard that phrase, "female in a dress with brown hair", I said to my wife that women don't do mass shootings; that shooter is a transgender. This morning, I decided to do a media dive to see what the world is being told about this incident. I have a strong disdain for the media, for very good reason, so I was not holding out much hope that t...