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read this: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/world/americas/mass-shootings-us-international.html …
Note @nytimes fails to call out predatory delay and distraction in headline piece today: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/us/politics/trump-speech-mass-shootings-dayton-el-paso.html …
The "mental illness" and "video games" excuses are *lies*. There aren't "both sides" of a lie 
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Here's WaPo with the same blind-spot: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-calls-for-strong-background-checks-after-massacres-suggests-pairing-gun-legislation-with-immigration-reform/2019/08/05/7de14d7c-b770-11e9-bad6-609f75bfd97f_story.html … And the LA Times: https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-08-05/trump-tweets-gun-background-checks … This is just

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People seem to expect that there is a mechanism like endlessly revised internal position papers on Issues, updated after news events. In my experience, news does not have that culture outside of standards/style or the minds of individual editors overseeing differently paced work.
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...which is why they put people on beats and give stories to those folks rather than whoever is hanging out by the watercooler. Need context to get to truth and push back on BS. Two WH correspondents writing the A1 lead on this w/o beat help is



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