Carnage: has it Increased in the last eight years or  receiving more attention? For there seems to be a correlation between the amount of coverage by conservative news of every shooting and their support for Trump's campaign to fix these communities.   Was that intentional or coincidental?   
  
I grew up in the Combat Zone, an area of Boston plagued by murders every nigh in the downtown area.  I walked to school and stepped around   the inebriates, the victims of murder, and the druggies on my way to school.  But the news downplayed most of the information to keep the mayor happy as the police kept quiet about the facts.  The Internet with its instant ability to get information nation wide during a shooting has only been with us for recent history.  A person gets shot walking home from a bar in a town we never heard of; before they get to the hospital the entire country knows about it.  

It is easy to keep the past hidden while faulting the present when the information is selective.