CNSNews.com is only sporadically interested in weekend crime figures in cities like Chicago — mostly when it serves its right-wing agenda to be. After a spate of concern over weekend shootings as social justice protests spread in late spring and early summer, CNS started losing interest when the protests died down.
CNS feigned concern through July and August in a transparent attempt to help boost President Trump’s re-election. But nearly all of those articles were written by a CNS summer intern; when he left, the stories stopped. But after a month and a half of silence — and, not coincidentally, a few weeks before the presidential election — an Oct. 13 article (yes, by an intern) resumed the body-count interest:
Although the national media largely ignore the rampant gun violence in the Windy City, the local media in Chicago reported that 53 people were shot, five fatally, over this past weekend (Oct. 9-12).
Five of the people wounded in the shootings are juveniles, according to CBS2 Chicago.
Interestingly, that was it. it seems that CNS decided the crime story wasn’t a winner for its agenda and its interns could be better deployed elsewhere — say, on Hunter Biden articles.