Car crashes have killed and seriously injured roughly the same number of people as shootings in Chicago this year. Only one of these things draws media attention.

Davriellelouna@lemmy.world · edit-2 9 天前

Car crashes have killed and seriously injured roughly the same number of people as shootings in Chicago this year. Only one of these things draws media attention.

Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works · 8 天前

Are you saying that OP is making a “cheap false equivalence”? They are commenting on news coverage, so I don’t follow what you mean.

breecher@sh.itjust.works · 8 天前

Yes, OP is very much doing that. They are commenting on how they think that news coverage should do a false equivalence on those two things.

Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works · 7 天前

Ty. I guess OP could be hinting at that. I don’t pick up on hints very well, and thought they were saying the news should also report about vehicle accident and death rates sometime.

wellheh@lemmy.sdf.org · 8 天前

The graph didn’t offer the conclusion- op did, and yes it’s cheap