https://www.npr.org/2025/09/08/nx-s1-5317647/school-shooting-industry
In the wake of those shootings, an industry has emerged to try to protect schools — and business is booming. According to the market research firm Omdia, the school security industry is now worth as much as $4 billion, and it's projected to keep growing.
I listened to NPR a few weeks ago when they were covering that church shooting and their coverage, to me, came across as perverse. Particulaely tr part where they discussed what the children were going through and how they might be processing the events. In isolation that doesn't seem tpo terrible of a thing to cover, but given the context of no real political understanding or framing, no idea of actions to take, and the wider complicity in so much violence, including the children in Gaza, it felt more like they were just trying to make purposeless spectacle-making of suffering into a business model.
You just cracked what NPR has been doing for at least fifteen years.
I switched to NPR today for a moment just to see who their “underwriters” were.
Moderna came up.
Big Pharma more as undertakers.