Romenesko

Los Angeles Times
Tim Rutten says it's not surprising that taken as a whole, the news media did a "thorough, competent and humane job" of covering the massacre "because we've all been here before, in one way or another ...and know how to cover these events. Perhaps because the reflexes we use to respond to outrages like the Virginia killings are so well conditioned, we blow right past a normative response that deserves far more deference than it now receives. The simple question: Why?"
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