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The media need to think twice about how they portray mass shooters

  • Written by Russell Frank, Associate Professor of Communications, Pennsylvania State University
Media portrayals of mass murderers may do more harm than good.Atstock Productions/Shutterstock.com

The lead story on The New York Times homepage provided the overview of the latest massacre at an American school: “17 Killed at Florida School; Toll May Climb.”

A “sidebar,” or secondary story, also on the homepage, bore this...

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