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    Commentary: Mass shootings are now a part of our daily life. The media needs to learn to cover them respectfully

    by Melissa Batchelor Warnke, Los Angeles Times Feb 19, 2018 3 minutes

    Like most of the hellscapes we now wade through, endemic gun violence is a tragedy of our own making. The Parkland story is like other stories: a 19-year-old gunman entered his former high school, this time in South Florida, and killed 17 people. Fourteen of them were students.

    But this time, journalists became part of the story of our eminently preventable national nightmare when reporters from CNN, the Miami Herald, ABC and a local news station publicly messaged a high school student, Aidan Minoff, who was tweeting during the shooting. They asked him to

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