http://miami.cbslocal.com/2018/02/27/fl ... book-deal/
The whole thing is pretty simple and the amount of predictable as shit politics around it is par for the course.
Hogg: Either trying to use his proximity to the event to jumpstart a journalism career via mass media exposure, being puppeteered by media to push a pre-screened narrative about gun control and MHC funding or both. You can tell there's something not entirely right about how he repeats specific talking points. All of his major media appearances follow a similar script and hit a series of specific talking points. So basically its either self-interest, he's being abused by the system, or both.
Gun """"control"""": Same song second verse, same as the first. There's never going to be a tragedy with so much as a whiff of a firearm that gun """"control"""" proponents won't use to push that agenda and who needs to wait for the bodies to even be cold when we've got 24/7 new coverage and assholes begging for corpse photos on twitter.
Corporate grandstanding: Boards of directors are designed for only one thing, keep the share cost high and turn whatever profit is required to do it. This means that all sorts of causes "putting pressure" on the company to do whatever the fuck will result in the corporation caving just to dodge some temporary negative press. Its all about as useful as Twitter moral grandstanding but with the added effect of pissing off whatever market you were courting in the first place by offering the given discount or product. I promise. In 6-8 months, nobody that isn't a political "activist" or pundit is going to remember what companies do and don't offer discounts to NRA members. But I promise the people who got those discounts will remember who decided to stop offering them discounts they used in order to score points with people that didn't get those same deals or discounts. Cutting ties with customers to appease people who are not your customers is a tried and true bad move. You can see it in how people who hate the NRA respond to the news that Delta was no longer offering their discount to NRA members to see what I mean here. "Wow Delta you just gained this customer." No they didn't. You never were their customer and you're not going to rush out to buy a plane ticket to nowhere just because they took a political potshot at somebody you dislike. I've never seen a correlation between the two things in any context but sales experience tells me you don't cut off current customers to chase prospective customers for reasons entirely unrelated to your product.