Want to talk about the WDBJ-TV Virginia live-on-TV shootings that occurred Aug. 26, 2015?
The Newseum provides an excellent set of questions and lines of thinking related to what to show and not show.
Other sources:
* A larger argument comes from the University of North Carolina’s , writing in The New York Times that media should deny attention to publicity-seeking killers.
* The DART Center for Journalism and Trauma talks about how the story is framed, and with dealing with trauma in newsrooms.
* The covers of The New York Daily News and New York Post drew special concern.
* A reminder that there’s nothing new about live-on-TV death. Former Pennsylvania treasurer Bud Dwyer, convicted of taking a bribe, killed himself in January 1987 on Philadelphia TV. What’s new is social media.