NYDN cover on San Bernadino

Shouldn't the paper wait 24 hours out of respect for the victims? Or is it only in bad taste to immediately politicize a tragedy when it happens outside the United States?

 

Did the Democratic candidates say anything, or are they waiting 24 hours?

A very large cross-section of people offer thoughts and prayers when something like this happens. To pick and choose and highlight that for political purposes on the day of the shooting is irresponsible. If this was a follow-up cover, I'm fine with it, especially given the low bar of the tabloids. But day of, it's bad journalism, bad timing.

 

So if they cheated on their spouse they weren't innocent?

Or if they bullied or antagonized the shooter?

 

I mean, hypothetically, one of them could have been a serial killer. Unlikely, obviously. But I assume that was more what MC was getting at. (Or maybe one of the victims raped and murdered the shooter's daughter, or, well, we could imagine a million abhorrent and unlikely possibilities).

 

Disagree. Politicians do nothing to help combat the problem should not get a pass on their heartfelt tweets.

 

Well, you 're not a journalist.

 

If they were directly involved with whatever precipitated the shooting, they're not innocent. That doesn't mean they were asking for it, or deserved to die, or are bad people. It just means they were involved and therefore affected the consequence in some however-small way.

The Sandy Hook kids were innocent.

 

Journalistically, why did they choose the four people they chose to "call out" on their front page? I would imagine hundreds of politicians or their staffs sent tweets encouraging support, thoughts, prayers etc. The cover appears agenda driven and that cheapens the point.

 

Ouch.