May 13, 2021
Experts say people often perceive equally deadly mass shootings in very different ways depending on how random the violence seems to be.
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You re an editor or producer in a national newsroom. Two mass shootings come in over the wire. One took place inside a home.the other at a crowded grocery store. Both saw multiple confirmed deaths. Both suspects are dead.
What do you cover first? And what gets the most airtime? Experts say people often perceive equally deadly mass shootings in very different ways depending on where they happen and how random the violence seems to be. And that affects how those shootings are covered.
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into this. the only other thing i d like to add, it s not just me. it s a team of award winning photographers. absolutely. i ve looked at the pictures, jim. they really are tremendous. now, on average, one person in philadelphia has been killed by a gun every day for the last 25 years. one thing your blog does is show how this violence becomes part of the fabric of daily life for so many children. so i have to ask you, what happens to these kids? these children who have to live with this level of violence day in and day out? well, it s pretty difficult to summarize, but the problem of living with the violence is among many of the problems living in poor parts of cities like philadelphia. but we re aware that there is sometimes a cycle of traumaization to perpetration of crime, and we learned we can disrupt that with certain