I got a comment about my Daniel Coverston blog that I felt should be discussed.  Below is the comment made on the blog post and my response.

 TasteMaker said...

This death is sad and all and I share your cynicism for this city. But it almost sounds to me like because this kid is not from inside city limits and has a Facebook page with 800 friends, that this is somehow denotes a real tragedy, and that all the other (I believe 34) deaths within city limits- poor, non-sociable bastards unlucky enough to have Comcast and a burgeoning friends list somehow aren't real. 

As a black Towson student who commutes from an inner city community (Edmondson Avenue) with a rampant murder rate, maybe I should start boosting my friend list and start twittering so I won't be one of those fake tragedies in the Murder Ink column.

 CCCam said...

TasteMaker, Thank you for your comment. Through this post I was not trying to trivialize every other murder in Baltimore. I was trying to show how this particular incident struck me, and how the social networking age has changed the way media outlets gather information.

I wish we could take the time to run full stories on every person murdered in this city. But as I'm sure you know from living here that the sheer volume of violence makes that impossible. I'm sure we're missing stories on real victims and I hate that. No one deserves to be killed whether you're a drug dealer or a law abiding citizen. 

Unfortunately its the break from the norm that makes the news and for Baltimore City, murder has become the norm.

Now, I understand Tastemaker's frustration.  Everyone is a tragedy to someone and everyone deserves to have their story told.