Nation shrugs at latest school shooting

Two people are dead, two students are critically injured in a school shooting at a middle school in Nevada today. The Reno Gazette Journal has video of students who said another student started the shooting by killing a teacher. The student eventually took his own life.

At one time, a school shooting would dominate the nation’s news cycle for days, but today it’s barely registering. It didn’t even make the home page of the New York Times website.

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The Washington Post buried it near the bottom of its home page.

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And CNN’s “breaking news” focused instead on a news conference that had happened three hours earlier.

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