Well, if that's the case why aren't they covering the school shooting that happened today?

The problem isn't the media's fault, for chrissake. They are merely a predictably reactionary response to something that is really, truly fucking sick in our society that no one has been able to put their finger on (as Mark Clark pointed out in his post above): children killing children at school. But nobody ever puts it exactly like that, do they? Even when discussing this film, which has a lot of information in it on school shootings, and deals very seriously with it. I'm always amazed that so few people ever mention the scene in K Mart, when Michael Moore is informing the K Mart employees that this is so and so (can't remember the students' names) who still have bullets in their bodies and were disabled from the Columbine shooting. That to me is the single most powerful scene in the film. The horrified reaction of the employees to the disabled victims of the Columbine shooting confronting them in their workplace.

To me, that scene tells the TRUE story of what Americans feel and think about school shootings. The fact that this school shooting occured at around 12:30 pm Eastern (it resulted in one student death and another student being critically wounded, with the student shooter alive and in custody) still isn't on the CNN website front page at around 5:30 pm Eastern time speaks volumes. Americans are not only deeply inurred to this sort of child against child violence, they also aren't really concerned enough to demand anything be done about it. Even the Million Mom March wasn't much of a blip on the radar.

I think it's time to stop blaming the media for everything (despite them being culpable in a whole lot of bad shit) negative Americans don't want to see about themselves. The problem is us, pure and simple. Life is cheap in the US, especially the lives of children. Especially the lives of poor children. I believe machismo is a large part of it. The peculiarly American sort of machismo that smacks arrogantly of the sort of crazed machismo of the "Are you talkin' to me?" ilk. Or the crazed machismo of the militarist "Kill 'em all, lot God sort 'em out" ilk. Or the crazed machismo of the gangsta ilk. The John Wayne/Sly Stallone/Arnold Schwarzenegger swagger that says "Don't fuck with this American, or I'll come at you guns blazin for looking at me wrong" sort of attitude.