In the span of one month, there were two mass shootings.
Immediately after the identity of the alleged Buffalo shooter - initially charged with one murder and suspected of killing 10 - became known, the chattering class was insisting that he was not a "Lone wolf" and pinned the blame for the massacre on "Right-wing extremists" who "Control the Republican party."
Of course, the media aren't always so exploitative in the wake of mass shootings.
Case in point: Just one month before the Buffalo shooting, a gunman threw smoke grenades in a New York City subway car filled with commuters and then opened fire, unloading 33 rounds before fleeing the scene.
Ten suffered gunshot wounds - the same number authorities say the Buffalo shooter killed - and 19 more had to be treated for smoke inhalation.
Two years after the shooting, the New York Times could only bring itself to call the shooter "An apparently politically motivated gunman."
The media's differing reaction to the two recent mass shootings is laughably predictable.
https://issuesinsights.com/2022/05/17/a-tale-of-two-mass-shootings/
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