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Coverage of the Ottawa shooting, in one very revealing screenshot

by Zack Beauchamp
Zack Beauchamp
Zack Beauchamp is a senior correspondent at Vox, where he covers ideology and challenges to democracy, both at home and abroad. His book on democracy, The Reactionary Spirit, was published 0n July 16. You can purchase it here.

This is a revealing screenshot:

It's obviously hard to extrapolate about a whole network's coverage from one headline. But judging from US cable news' recent panic about ISIS, Ebola, and sometimes ISIS and Ebola at the same time, it's not clear CNN really deserves the benefit of the doubt. And the CBC's relatively sober, informative approach to an ongoing crisis in its actual capital deserves some plaudits (like much of Canadian society).

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