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Tag: mass shootings
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Journalists Just Want to Tell Stories. Today, Some Died for It
I used to be a reporter at a small daily, community newspaper like the Capital Gazette. We had maybe 14 reporters, and we were like family. I couldn’t imagine living through a shooting with that family, watching some of them die. Today, I cry with the reporters and staff at the Capital Gazette. We don’t know the…
Shari Lopatin
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How Inflammatory Language Brought Us to the Age of Mass Shootings
First Planned Parenthood, then today: San Bernardino, Calif. Both are medical clinics. Both are supposed to be safe places … kinda like schools (anyone remember Sandy Hook)? According to CNN, president Barack Obama said, “We have a pattern now of mass shootings in this country that has no parallel anywhere else in the world.” Regardless of…