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Media handling of Connecticut school shootings examined

9:50 AM, December 18, 2012

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Following the school shootings in Connecticut journalists, critics and citizens wasted no time weighing in on how the media handled coverage of the tragedy.

Andrew Beaujon, media reporter for Poynter Online, wrote a recent column examining how the media reported the shootings.

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