Tag: copycat effect

Do journalists deserve some blame for America’s mass shootings?

By Angela Morris (published in Quill, Summer 2018)  The reporter who won this year’s Pulitzer Prize for feature writing initially thought she was in Charleston, South Carolina, to chronicle the lives of nine church-goers who died in 2015 when a stranger with a Glock murdered them while they were praying. The names, mug shots and …