There’s a line in this Atlantic piece from a former Rocky Mountain News editor who, while reflecting on what it was like to cover the Columbine shootings in 1999, says, “The only thing holding us back from getting on the streets quickly was that the pictures we were getting from our photographers on the scene were so bloody, we didn’t feel we could put them on the front page.”
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Required reading: what bullets do to bodies
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There’s a line in this Atlantic piece from a former Rocky Mountain News editor who, while reflecting on what it was like to cover the Columbine shootings in 1999, says, “The only thing holding us back from getting on the streets quickly was that the pictures we were getting from our photographers on the scene were so bloody, we didn’t feel we could put them on the front page.”