editorial<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cOur philosophy has little if anything to do with the anger we feel about the atrocities the Las Vegas shooter committed, although to be sure, we like most of you are angry.<\/p>\n
\u201cNor is it a signal that we lack sympathy for the mental health issues that likely were involved and that need more generally to be addressed in our society. But the kind of troubled mind that would consider such an atrocity is the kind of troubled mind that also would fantasize about the attention. We want to contribute in no way to such fantasies. We want to contribute in no way to more atrocities.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want no copycats.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want other troubled minds to seek help rather than glorification.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a responsibility as a news organization to exercise restraint in how we cover these tragic stories and how we present them. Every news organization has a responsibility to exercise that restraint.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe urge them to do so.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur coverage also has an obligation to help shine light on the causes of these mass slayings. That's necessary so society has a better understanding of ways to combat them. But that exploration can we done without naming the killers, without turning them into celebrities, without pouring out personal details that are unrelated to motive.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd it can be done without personal photos. That's one more thing you won't see in the newspaper: a photo of the killer.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe published a small and low-key photo with the first-day coverage. That's the last photo of him we'll ever publish.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Last Monday morning, when the tragic news of the Las Vegas concert shooting was still unfolding, employees of Paddock Publications (including the Daily Herald) received the following companywide email: We awoke as you probably did with the news of the horrific shooting in Las Vegas. With the shooter being named Paddock, we want to let... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15664"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15686,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15664\/revisions\/15686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}