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 2 days ago

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 · 2 days ago

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 · 2 days ago

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 · 1 day ago

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 · 2 days ago

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