News Reporting the Same Thing

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When a tragedy like the Kroger shooting happens, almost every news organization is talking about it and updating everyone on the latest developments. The question is: is this a good or bad thing?

I say it is a very good thing. When something horrible and tragic happens, everyone wants to know exactly what happened, when, where, who, why, and how. Everyone also has a different preferred media outlet. Some like CNN, some like WHAS, some like WLKY the best. Everyone will go to their preferred media outlet to find out the latest information. If every news outlet spends just a few moments on the tragedy and never revisits it, what does that say about the news organization itself?

To spend a lot of time explaining what happened and to make sure the victims are known is very important. I am very glad that this is all over the news because it needs to be talked about. It needs to be talked about to the point where everyone can recite exactly what happened, because that means that it made an impact. This story needs to be known by everyone it can reach so that it never, ever happens again.

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