Samuel Little - You know who he is? (Or how Orwellian is our News Media)

[Jimmy Higgins]

It is a simple question. Samuel Little is a person, do you know who he is without looking him up? You might somewhat recognize who he is after you look him up and say "Oh... that is him... didn't know that the sentencing happened."

In America, this really isn't news. Yeah, if you do a web search, you'll find several spaced out news articles about him, but you'd think with such a notorious history, one could be forgiven for thinking that his name would be a bit more forward in the minds of Americans. After all, what he has admitted to doing, and apparently there is evidence to back up his claims, is the worst of his kind in our nation's history.

Yet, it seems primary and Presidential politics have sucked so much air out of the room, it is almost impossible for such a notorious criminal to get even a modicum of serious attention.

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Samuel Little (born June 7, 1940) is an American serial killer who was convicted of the murders of three women in California between 1987 and 1989 and one woman in Texas in 1994. He claims to have killed as many as 93 people, and investigators have linked him to over 60 murders, which may make him the most prolific serial killer in United States history;

What does this tell us about what our priorities are, the media's priorities are, our level of empathy for strangers?

 

[Koyaanisqatsi]

This is a weird trope of late. The whataboutism of news reporting. It's basically, I personally haven't seen anything about topic X, therefore no one in the entire mainstream media is covering it and no one is talking about it within earshot of me, therefore....

The assumption of omniscience and hyperbole and straight-up narcism jam-packed into such a self-inflated world view is staggering. But even more so than all of that, what is the purpose of making such assertions other than to self-aggrandize; to say, "See? I know more than you do about important things and I pass judgement accordingly."

It's the lowest hanging fruit in the tu quoque basket. The Sanders camp used this tactic exclusively to gaslight not just voters, but reporters who were already covering him into insisting that no one was covering him.

And, more importantly, what would satisfy you in regard to this pet topic? What's the threshold? NBC, CBS, CNN must all run ten hours of coverage every week for two months on him? Twenty hours? What's the cutoff?

And how--exactly--does that make our new media "Orwellian"?

Sorry, Jimmy, but none of this makes any sense. Just count up the thousands of hours of news coverage on other serial killers over the years (like Manson or Dahmer or Gacey). Does any of that offset this perceived slight or whatever this is?

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Sorry, Jimmy, but none of this makes any sense. Just count up the thousands of hours of news coverage on other serial killers over the years (like Manson or Dahmer or Gacey). Does any of that offset this perceived slight or whatever this is?

They got the coverage, this other guy hardly gets any. I know about because he was sentenced very recently in Cleveland. Also, those other guys you mentioned... they didn't kill as many people.

 

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Here's perhaps a clue in what you just posted (emphasis mine):

They got the coverage, this other guy hardly gets any. I know about because he was sentenced very recently in Cleveland.

And here's a full page story on that very recent development (June 7, 2019) on CNN ffs: Confessed serial killer Samuel Little now linked to 60 deaths of women, the most mainstreamy of the mainstream. Note the word "now" in the title.

So you're complaining about someone who--literally until three months ago--was merely known to have killed "two Cleveland women decades ago" and who then confessed to others no one knew about being profiled on CNN not getting any mainstream coverage.

And if you just google his name alone you'll see that, on the first and second search results pages, you have CNN (first on the list); Washington Post; NBC; NY Post; USA Today; Independent UK; The Sun UK; The Guardian; Fox News; and the NY Times ALL covering Little.

You really can't get much more mainstreamy than that.

 

[Keith&Co.]

Yet, it seems primary and Presidential politics have sucked so much air out of the room, it is almost impossible for such a notorious criminal to get even a modicum of serious attention

well, one criminal has been caught, tried and sentenced.
One has been caught, but the Senate won't try him.

 

[Jolly_Penguin]

It is a simple question. Samuel Little is a person, do you know who he is without looking him up? You might somewhat recognize who he is after you look him up and say "Oh... that is him... didn't know that the sentencing happened."

In America, this really isn't news. Yeah, if you do a web search, you'll find several spaced out news articles about him, but you'd think with such a notorious history, one could be forgiven for thinking that his name would be a bit more forward in the minds of Americans. After all, what he has admitted to doing, and apparently there is evidence to back up his claims, is the worst of his kind in our nation's history.

Yet, it seems primary and Presidential politics have sucked so much air out of the room, it is almost impossible for such a notorious criminal to get even a modicum of serious attention.

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Samuel Little (born June 7, 1940) is an American serial killer who was convicted of the murders of three women in California between 1987 and 1989 and one woman in Texas in 1994. He claims to have killed as many as 93 people, and investigators have linked him to over 60 murders, which may make him the most prolific serial killer in United States history;

What does this tell us about what our priorities are, the media's priorities are, our level of empathy for strangers?

I never heard of him, even after I read your hidden text explaining who he is. He's never been mentioned on any of the media I've seen, left or right leaning, domestic within the US or international.

Maybe it fails to resonate because you've just got so damn many new stories about mass shootings and other violence going on in the USA. I can't tell you anything about the most recent mass shooting either. You have so many that it goes out of date fast and I've stopped keeping up. I do remember Sandy Hook, Colombine, and that one in Texas though. If these things are rare, then maybe i'll notice them more?

 

[Gun Nut]

It is a simple question. Samuel Little is a person, do you know who he is without looking him up? You might somewhat recognize who he is after you look him up and say "Oh... that is him... didn't know that the sentencing happened."

In America, this really isn't news. Yeah, if you do a web search, you'll find several spaced out news articles about him, but you'd think with such a notorious history, one could be forgiven for thinking that his name would be a bit more forward in the minds of Americans. After all, what he has admitted to doing, and apparently there is evidence to back up his claims, is the worst of his kind in our nation's history.

Yet, it seems primary and Presidential politics have sucked so much air out of the room, it is almost impossible for such a notorious criminal to get even a modicum of serious attention.

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Samuel Little (born June 7, 1940) is an American serial killer who was convicted of the murders of three women in California between 1987 and 1989 and one woman in Texas in 1994. He claims to have killed as many as 93 people, and investigators have linked him to over 60 murders, which may make him the most prolific serial killer in United States history;

What does this tell us about what our priorities are, the media's priorities are, our level of empathy for strangers?

didn't look anything up... is he the guy that is now asking to move to California, but the limitations related to his prison release were preventative? Hear about that on Howard Stern... but maybe a different killer.

Edited to add:

Nope. Different guy.

 

[Derec]

This might explain it.

He doesn't fit the MSM preferred narrative of "white male killers" so Anderson Cooper et al have no interest in him.

 

[Koyaanisqatsi]

CNN from June 7, 2019: [video]https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2019/02/13/samuel-little-convicted-serial-killer-drawings-casarez-nr-vpx.cnn[/video]

CNN from December 13, 2018: A convicted murderer says he killed 90 people and got away with it. The FBI believes him

CNN from July 17, 2019: Samuel Little may be the most prolific serial killer in the US. One of those slayings may have occurred in Pine Bluff, Arkansas

CNN from June 2, 2019: Serial killer who has confessed to scores of slayings indicted in connection with Ohio cold cases

CNN from February 14, 2019: The FBI wants help identifying the women in a confessed serial killer's hand drawn portraits of his victims

MSN "sharing" CNN's story from June 8, 2019: CNN - Samuel Little: 60 deaths linked to confessed serial killer

ABC News from June 4, 2019: Serial killer Samuel Little says he murdered unknown woman found dead in Ohio in 1983

NBC News from June 8, 2019: Confessed serial killer Samuel Little linked to more than 60 deaths, Texas prosecutor says

USA Today from June 3, 2019: Serial killer Samuel Little, who has confessed to killing 93 women, indicted in Ohio cold cases

NY Post from November 16, 2018: Suspected mass serial killer admits to 90 murders

NPR from June 7, 2019: 'Most Prolific Serial Killer' In America Confesses To Killing 5 More Women In Ohio

NY Times from February 13, 2019: F.B.I. Hopes Samuel Little’s Drawings Will Help Identify His Murder Victims

NY Times from November 26, 2018: He Says He Got Away With 90 Murders. Now He’s Confessing to Them All.

A&E Network from March 5, 2019: How and Why Serial Killers Remember Details About Their Victims

Oxygen (Oprah's channel for all for the racist pieces of shit to take note) from September 3, 2019: Prolific Serial Killer Pleads Guilty To 4 More Of The 93 Murders He's Claimed To Commit

LA Times from June 7, 2019: One of the country’s worst serial killers has now been linked to more than 60 slayings

The numerous other LA Times stories covering the California serial killer over the years

Chicago Tribune from August 23, 2019: Samuel Little, possibly the most prolific serial killer in U.S. history, pleads guilty in 4 Ohio slayings

Rolling Stone from November 30, 2018: How an Alleged Serial Killer Went Unnoticed for 40 Years

CBS LA from September 25, 2014: Serial Killer, 74, Sentenced To 3 Life Terms Without Possibility Of Parole

The seven other stories about Little from CBS LA

NY Daily News from June 2, 2019: Serial killer Samuel Little, who has confessed to killing more than 90 women, indicted for two Cleveland slayings

The Denver fucking Post from June 9, 2019: Convicted California murderer now linked to more than 60 deaths may be most prolific killer in U.S. history

 

[Politesse]

It is a simple question. Samuel Little is a person, do you know who he is without looking him up? You might somewhat recognize who he is after you look him up and say "Oh... that is him... didn't know that the sentencing happened."

In America, this really isn't news. Yeah, if you do a web search, you'll find several spaced out news articles about him, but you'd think with such a notorious history, one could be forgiven for thinking that his name would be a bit more forward in the minds of Americans. After all, what he has admitted to doing, and apparently there is evidence to back up his claims, is the worst of his kind in our nation's history.

Yet, it seems primary and Presidential politics have sucked so much air out of the room, it is almost impossible for such a notorious criminal to get even a modicum of serious attention.

Show

Samuel Little (born June 7, 1940) is an American serial killer who was convicted of the murders of three women in California between 1987 and 1989 and one woman in Texas in 1994. He claims to have killed as many as 93 people, and investigators have linked him to over 60 murders, which may make him the most prolific serial killer in United States history;

What does this tell us about what our priorities are, the media's priorities are, our level of empathy for strangers?

I don't know why you think the news hasn't been reporting on this. They've been following the whole thing. Californians certainly know about the guy, the situation was a cause of much horror and disgust when I was growing up, and everything came out again (in lurid detail) when he was first imprisoned a few years ago (2015?) for the three murders that happened down in L.A. I guess people in other parts of the country might not be paying as much attention. But that's got nothing to do with the news media. People tend to be pretty regionalist when it comes to caring about criminal prosecution. Having spent so much of his shadowy career around Hollywood, I'm sure he'll get a "true crime" biopic film after he dies, that'll get people's notice again. If that's what you're really worried about.