
News:
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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The Times *does* good journalism on this: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/14/upshot/compare-these-gun-death-rates-the-us-is-in-a-different-world.html?searchResultPosition=4 … ...it just totally fails to connect dots in either reportage or editing on current events. So what's the point, even?
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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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Opinion desks, with editorial boards, do have something like that though perhaps not the rigor I think you'd expect. Immediate news reporting keeps some distance between policy analysis or other analytical frames. Often due to hard constraints around staff or time.
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I share this frustration, yet see dozens of examples that fit multiple points on any spectrum I could devise. Enough to say I still have no real prescription of what should change.
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Even if
@maggieNYT &@michaelcrowley are the folks you pull for this story, and this isn't their beat...this isn't their first "president responds to a mass shooting" gig either. Gun politics *are* politics in the US. This is *just bad political reporting*.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
But ignoring the reporters for a moment, let's imagine some better headlines. How about: "President uses gun industry talking points to spread misinformation in the wake of fatal shootings" Or: "President deflects responsibility from self, supporters, funders in massacres"
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