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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 
...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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I understand the point *and* it still doesn't track with what I know of internal mechanisms in newsrooms. The ways humans complicate things is astonishing (+ or -). This is very helpful critique and a facet news could clarify better. Yet it's among the hardest for editors to see.
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/me puts on engineering hat Maybe there's a CMS/ML tool that could help here? Run the draft through a corpus of previous coverage and pull out a "what we know" brief in real time?
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