1. You are making an elementary error here: propaganda doesn't make money, it's generated at a loss to serve a higher purpose. There is a market for angertainment, to salve people who don't like to be challenged.
2. Which political cause ? Gun control ? Well, the question is whether she has been turned or whether people actually believe that gun control is the right thing to do. Rebel Media is a company, trying to get attention. I think people who are 'using' the Danforth shooting may actually be trying to improve things however misguided you think they are.
1. I'm not sure anything Ezra Levant has been involved with has ever made money... from the Western Standard to Sun TV to Rebel Media. He's perpetually begging his subscribers for donations so that they can "keep fighting". The one thing all his career endeavors, from his early political aspirations to his present-day publishing efforts, have in common is a desire to promote right-wing ideology. He's an unabashed shill for right-wing parties at the federal and provincial level.
2. People who are paranoid about violent immigrants may actually want to make things better too, regardless how misguided they are.
I haven't done a count, but I am sure that there have been a lot more stories about Reese Fallon's murder than about Marissa Shen's murder. One is a political talking point, the other is just a tragedy.
In the US, the murder of Mollie Tibbetts was a national news item for weeks. Another Iowa college girl, Celia Barquin Arozamena, was just murdered... but it's not going to become a national political talking point, because this time an American has been charged with the murder.
Some news items matter more to Republicans and Rebel Media and their supporters. Other news items matter more to Toronto city council and Toronto Star and their supporters. I am struggling with the idea of how objective any media source can be, because they all make subjective decisions about which stories deserve coverage, which don't, how much attention each story needs, and so on. Any news outlet we view is the result of some sort of filtering process, and that filtering process is based on subjective decisions and value judgments. That's where I'm heading with this.
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