Commentary: Do people really need to be protected from the New Zealand shooter's footage?
by Virginia Heffernan, Los Angeles Times
Mar 18, 2019
3 minutes
Late Thursday night, after hours of vacillating, the media finally agreed on how to handle the video shot by the chief suspect in the New Zealand mosque shootings. The consensus was more or less organic: It would be reckless to show it.
As of Friday, the massacre is considered the deadliest attack aimed at Muslims in the West in modern times, with 49 dead and 20 seriously injured.
Soon after the gunman's footage was live-streamed on Facebook on Thursday evening, clips tore through the internet, as YouTube, Twitter and
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