Newspaper Crying Wolf with Video Game Related Shooting Headline?

Just to update this story, the Salisbury Post released yet another article with the same information, but with a different wording implying the same videogame-shooting connection "Video game may have prompted Horah Street shooting death": www.salisburypost.com/Area/091809-cops-follo-on-Chambers-shooting, as well as an editorial "Life-or-death decisions" where a single line, "But it would trivialize this death to view it simply as the result of one abysmally bad choice motivated, in some way, by images on a computer screen" is used to even combat the prior nonsense and much time is spent on the gang angle/need to work with local anti-gang initiatives: www.salisburypost.com/Opinion/091809-edit-teen-shooting .

Edit They printed my letter to the editor Sunday, though not 100% as it was submitted.

Their editorial on Friday mostly focused on the anti-gang initiatives sadly, with not as much mention of other local organizations, or more parental involvement. I know from working with some of the youth in this area who are involved in some of these gangs, that that's not going to do the trick alone. I was in court during misc juvenile trials of at least one of the youth involved in this shooting as far as I can recall.  The many organizations who get dealt the problem cases that the courts have not yet turned over into adult offenders need money to do more (often dispensed to them from agencies like The United Way and state dollars), but most importantly, they need volunteers. But before those problem cases even hit the radar screen, or even start getting into trouble, parents need to be more involved in these youth's lives.

Yes, some of the kids in the programs have everything, including parents who try their best but fail to reach them. However, many of them come from seriously fractured situations where no one really gets the job done, laying any sort of groundwork, let alone example for them to follow. The parents of some youth even end up in court for fighting amongst themselves, ongoing fueds going on for generations. Fail.

The peanut gallery blames games and any number of other things for what society can fix, with efforts on what matters. Society being individuals doing the right thing on a day to day basis, not giving up because they are tired and lazy. Maybe it would be easier if some people's jobs didn't suck so badly, or they didn't have their time filled already, but even in the best cases some parents and guardians don't make any proactive effort to develop anything other than damaged youth on a rampage. Some of us get this and do our parts, while others don't and ruin it for the rest of us.

No, this was not my letter. This was a tangent fueled by coffee and an inability to fathom the depths of scapegoating madness hitting so close to home.