Sunday marked one year since the Tuscon, Arizona shooting where Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords suffered a gunshot wound to head. In total, thirteen people were injured and six other killed, including the shooter. At 10:11 a.m., when the shooting started, church bells and bells passed out to residents will ring out across Tucson.Â
Buzz Conover, senior political reporter at KUAT, Tucson's public radio outlet, has more on the community's reaction and Rep. Gifford's recovery.
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Sometimes, the stories that The Takeaway does, or the way that The Takeaway will do a praticular story, will cause listeners to complain.
It is rare, I gather, that The Takeaway will air any complaints about the stories that aren't done.
Case in point: The Takeaway, and NPR in general, have almost studiously ignored this story from Oklahoma; a mom, defending her haome and her baby shoots and kills an intruder with a 12 ga. shotgun:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/01/04/144696145/mom-kills-intruder-dead-mans-alleged-accomplice-faces-murder-charge
That's one single blog-entry, buried on NPR.org. Not a single NPR News broadcast story. Not a single PRI program carrying the story. NPR.org established a subject-tag for Sarah Dawn McKinley, and it has just that one entry.
Be assured; this is a very prominent story elsewhere. It is the left, in the form of Salon.com, the New York Times, NPR and other favored news outlets, that have virtually ignored the story.
So sometimes it is what you don't say, that reveals your biases, eh?
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