Covering a Mass Shooting, and Adding to a Town’s Pain – The New York Times

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Covering a Mass Shooting, and Adding to a Town’s Pain

A media frenzy after the mass shooting in Sutherland Springs makes a correspondent wonder if it’s time to discuss how such events are covered.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/13/insider/sutherland-springs-shooting-media-frenzy-adding-to-towns-pain.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Tex. — It wasn’t the television presenters elbowing their way to the front of the scrum near the massacre scene that finally drove home how the news media was aggravating the tragedy here. It wasn’t the run on food at Theresa’s Kitchen or the point at which the number of journalists seemed to rival the few hundred souls of the town’s population.