As a small-town newspaper reporter at the start of my career and when print newspapers were still a thing, I worked in a newsroom where one of our goals with stories of high national or international interest was to make them more relatable to the local audience.

Conflict breaks out between Israel and Gaza; you go to the local synagogue and interview Jewish leaders and families. Today, you might stop at a mosque and interview members of the local Muslim population (though back in the late 1990s there honestly weren’t any mosques in central Virginia or northeastern North Carolina that I knew of).

Continue reading News from Outside the Path of Totality: Florida Highway Shooter Blames God, Eclipse for Her Actions; the Media Just Blames at The Truth About Guns.

Source: News from Outside the Path of Totality: Florida Highway Shooter Blames God, Eclipse for Her Actions; the Media Just Blames