Tuesday, December 18, 2012

How NOT to cover a school shooting


Here's the BBC being self-critical after a previous episode.

Every time we have intense saturation coverage of a murder, we expect to see one or two more within a week.

I've had this squirreled away since I first ran across it via Jay Rosen. But in the aftermath of the Connecticut shooting, I too forgot what I had understood, along with everyone else.

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