MEDIA MATTERS

TV News Encourages Mass Shootings

The media needs to rethink its response to these tragedies

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I live in California, where there have been three mass shootings in the last week. Altogether, 19 people are dead, and several others are wounded.

Across America, there have been 40 mass shootings in the first month of 2023 alone.