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Santa Fe High School shooting showed how TV news has become accustomed to covering mass shootings
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"The increase in the number of mass shootings has resulted in a kind of template for covering such a horrifying tragedy," says Cynthia Littleton. "Interviews with shaken students and grieving parents, a rush to find biographical details about the suspected shooter and discussions with angry activists railing about the lack of curbs on the availability of guns and ammunition have become a chilling staple of TV."
TOPICS: Santa Fe High Shooting, CNN, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, Cable News, Gun Violence
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