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How is literally counting the deaths "making the death count worse"?

lettergram 6y ago
Because they're counting deaths that weren't directly related to anything. There are supposedly seven people who "died in the Jan 6 riot" and yet two were suicides days-to-weeks later, three were heart attacks / strokes from physical assertions (or gas/spray, we aren't sure) and one died from falling / being trampled and one was shot in front of police. The "7 people died in an armed insurrection" is a lie. The most accurate statement is: "one protestor/rioter shot by police at the Capital riot", "one officer died from suspected injuries sustained", "two people died in march to capital after trump's speech", "two officers commit suicide after being investigated in connection to Jan 6 riot at the Capital" "one rioter on Jan 6 fell to their death and were trampled by the rioters" ^ These are all more accurate, but probably reduces viewership. The statement was "how did the US news media lose their viewers trust". I simply summarized one event which highlights it.
- jeremysalwen 6y ago
  > "one protestor/rioter shot by police at the Capital riot" i.e. one rioter died in the riot. > "one officer died from suspected injuries sustained", i.e. one officer died in the riot. >"two people died in march to capital after trump's speech" i.e. two people died in the riot >"two officers commit suicide after being investigated in connection to Jan 6 riot at the Capital" i.e. two officers died in connection with the riot > "one rioter on Jan 6 fell to their death and were trampled by the rioters" i.e. one rioter died in the riot >"one rioter on Jan 6 fell to their death and were trampled by the rioters" i.e. one rioter died in the riot I'm very confused as to where the media claimed that "7 people died" as the result of being gunned down in the street. Obviously if 7 people died by being gunned down in the street, the media headline would be "7 PEOPLE GUNNED DOWN BY INSURRECTIONISTS", not "7 PEOPLE DIED IN THE INSURRECTION".
  - pessimizer 6y ago
    I'm confused as to where the comment you replied to claimed that the media claimed that "7 people died" as a result of being gunned down in the street. Was there an edit?
    - jeremysalwen 6y ago
      The above comment says > There are supposedly seven people who "died in the Jan 6 riot" And then proceeds to dispute this, by showing that... each of those 7 people died as a result of injuries in the riot, with the sole exception of the suicides. The question is what standard of "dying in the riots" would satisfy OP, if the literal interpretation (died from injuries sustained in the riot) does not satisfy him. Presumably if they were gunned down in the streets?
- chillwaves 6y ago
  Those people would not have died if Trump did not incite the riots. Do you dispute the above?

Because they're counting deaths that weren't directly related to anything. There are supposedly seven people who "died in the Jan 6 riot" and yet two were suicides days-to-weeks later, three were heart attacks / strokes from physical assertions (or gas/spray, we aren't sure) and one died from falling / being trampled and one was shot in front of police. The "7 people died in an armed insurrection" is a lie. The most accurate statement is: "one protestor/rioter shot by police at the Capital riot", "one officer died from suspected injuries sustained", "two people died in march to capital after trump's speech", "two officers commit suicide after being investigated in connection to Jan 6 riot at the Capital" "one rioter on Jan 6 fell to their death and were trampled by the rioters" ^ These are all more accurate, but probably reduces viewership. The statement was "how did the US news media lose their viewers trust". I simply summarized one event which highlights it.

jeremysalwen 6y ago
> "one protestor/rioter shot by police at the Capital riot" i.e. one rioter died in the riot. > "one officer died from suspected injuries sustained", i.e. one officer died in the riot. >"two people died in march to capital after trump's speech" i.e. two people died in the riot >"two officers commit suicide after being investigated in connection to Jan 6 riot at the Capital" i.e. two officers died in connection with the riot > "one rioter on Jan 6 fell to their death and were trampled by the rioters" i.e. one rioter died in the riot >"one rioter on Jan 6 fell to their death and were trampled by the rioters" i.e. one rioter died in the riot I'm very confused as to where the media claimed that "7 people died" as the result of being gunned down in the street. Obviously if 7 people died by being gunned down in the street, the media headline would be "7 PEOPLE GUNNED DOWN BY INSURRECTIONISTS", not "7 PEOPLE DIED IN THE INSURRECTION".
- pessimizer 6y ago
  I'm confused as to where the comment you replied to claimed that the media claimed that "7 people died" as a result of being gunned down in the street. Was there an edit?
  - jeremysalwen 6y ago
    The above comment says > There are supposedly seven people who "died in the Jan 6 riot" And then proceeds to dispute this, by showing that... each of those 7 people died as a result of injuries in the riot, with the sole exception of the suicides. The question is what standard of "dying in the riots" would satisfy OP, if the literal interpretation (died from injuries sustained in the riot) does not satisfy him. Presumably if they were gunned down in the streets?
chillwaves 6y ago
Those people would not have died if Trump did not incite the riots. Do you dispute the above?