Mass shootings in a town near you becomes a manufactured headline

Talk show host Clyde Lewis tonight posted something notable on Facebook: A screen grab of various "local news" headlines from across America that said the exact same thing.. 

"MASS SHOOTINGS SURGE IN ___________ AS NATION FACES RECORD HIGH"  Just insert you state for local digestion.

Lewis wrote,

People tell me I have a knack for seeing the future.. Nope I have a knack for seeing programming and how news is all pack journalism -- I have worked for two news organizations -- I know how this is done. This is their agenda.

When your read the actual various links, no "local" news sources say where the 'mass shootings' in that particular state took place.. 

Post after post written by Marco della Cava and Mike Stucka have different paragraphs but end with the same language:

With COVID-19 cases falling and vaccines rolling out, some criminologists hope a rebounding economy and reopened schools will drive down the national numbers in 2021.

Early results are promising, says Mark Bryant, founder of the non-profit Gun Violence Archive, which tracks gun incident trends. In the first seven weeks of this year, there have been 63 mass shootings — defined as four or more people injured or killed in one incident — which if continued would show a drop from 2020, he said.

“I’m hoping last year proves to be the anomaly,” said Bryant. “The stresses caused by last year, from jobs to illness, were not just an urban thing or a rural thing. We saw bumps in towns in Louisiana and Mississippi, as well as in Chicago and Philadelphia.”

Other experts warn that reducing mass shootings across the United States will require more than simply putting the pandemic in the rearview mirror.

THE LINKS HERE:

https://www.ellwoodcityledger.com/story/news/2021/03/02/gda-mass-shootings-rise-in-2020-pa-necl/43442523/

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2021/03/07/florida-mass-shootings-rise-in-2020/43442283/

https://www.cantonrep.com/story/news/2021/03/01/gda-mass-shootings-rise-in-2020-oh-nrep/43442317/

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/2021/03/05/gda-mass-shootings-rise-in-2020-wi-pmjs/43442219/

https://www.chronicle-express.com/story/news/2021/03/04/gda-mass-shootings-rise-in-2020-ny-nche/43442193/

https://www.chieftain.com/story/news/2021/02/26/gda-mass-shootings-rise-in-2020-co-ntpc/115506450/

https://www.courierpress.com/story/news/local/2021/03/03/mass-shootings-fall-indiana-evansville-nation-faces-record-high/115506116/

https://www.app.com/story/news/crime/jersey-mayhem/2021/03/02/gda-mass-shootings-rise-in-2020-nj-papp/115506870/