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Omaha Newspaper's Miscues in Shootings

Alan Mutter: Flat-footed in Omaha. The Omaha World-Herald was caught completely flat-footed today when a gunman killed eight people in a local mall, producing the worse online coverage in memory by a newspaper with a major story breaking in its own backyard.

1 Comment on “Omaha Newspaper's Miscues in Shootings”

  1. #1 Virgil H. Soule
    on Dec 8th, 2007 at 11:38 am

    As always, the number one question must be: Where did the shooter get the weapon? As long as high-powered assault weapons are freely available in our society, we must accept incidents like the one at Westroads as inevitable.