Nine people shot dead in church. “America’s Shame,” cries the Indy. Racism or terrorism? That’s one media debate. But there’s another – in Britain at least – as critics note some papers (the Telegraph and Times among them) didn’t exactly clear their front pages over Charleston. Because the victims were black? Because of some lurking racism?
Try a much simpler reason. American mass gun atrocities are two a penny. Even Obama can’t stop them. They come and they bloodily go. American society shrugs them off. The 24-hour cable news cycle in a faraway land moves on to the next set of gory pictures. Big news, remember, is something different. But Charleston is and was just the same.
