Newsworthy?

http://youtu.be/YQgCXYwSQLo

I did some research on the Chicago shootings that were briefly brought up in class.  My friend recently uploaded a picture on Instagram with the caption of I'm mad because 500 youth have died from Gun Violence which was part of the 550 campaign.  According to this video more than 500 youth have died due to gun violence since 2008.  That is more than unacceptable.  There is not much coverage of these shootings until recently when a baby was shot while her father was changing her diaper.  She was shot multiple times, and later died in the hospital.  This was the first story I've heard and there have been stories like these since 2008, 550 later it makes CNN.  Maybe there has been coverage and I have just missed all of this action.  Tragedies like the Sandy Hook Story happen almost each month in Chicago, they didn't get half as much coverage as Sandy Hook did.  Chicago is a major city, unlike the Sandy Hook story, wouldn't there be more coverage?  Did they not receive as much coverage and sympathy because they're mostly minorities?  Is it because they are from the inner city where gang violence is most prevalent?  Youths don't choose where they live, they are not old enough to make those kinds of decisions.  Although their environment shapes them they still have the same innocence that a child from upper class would have.  What makes them any different than the children in the Sandy Hook incident?  The fact that 550 youths have died innocently bothers me, why would it not bother everybody else regardless to race?  Gun violence is prevalent there, therefore it isn't newsworthy.  They don't get anymore sympathy tears, people don't want to hear about it anymore.  Why did it take the Sandy Hook story for the president to talk about it?