This news piece delves into the emotional impact of covering the Buffalo mass shooting, highlighting the challenges faced by reporters in balancing public information with sensitivity towards the victims. It explores the motivations of the shooter, Payton Gendron, who was influenced by the 'great replacement theory' and the Christchurch mosque massacre. The article emphasizes the lasting grief and trauma inflicted on the community.
Sometimes, in this job, it’s easier to take a stranger’s hand and let them cry on your shoulder than it is to make sense of a senseless tragedy.
In a manifesto posted before his rampage, Gendron invoked the idea that white Americans were at risk of being “replaced” by people of colour, an ideology known as “great replacement theory”, Sometimes people are willing to talk about what they saw, who they knew, or how they felt about the fact another US mass shooting had taken place, years after theBut other times, they’re still in shock and too devastated to speak, or view you as an intruder in their anguish – and who could blame them?Yellow police tape cordoned off the site where 10 black people had been slain.
I’ve spent a lot of time in my career dealing with trauma, cognisant of the fact that repeated exposure can also take an emotional toll on journalists, often in the form of burnout orinvestigative unit, my colleagues Chris Vedelago, Debbie Cuthbertson and I spent months talking to survivors of clergy sex abuse to expose: priests and religious brothers who colluded with each other to abuse young boys. Sometimes, they’d even share their victims.
This was compounded less than two weeks later when an even deadlier shooting took place in Texas, in which another 18-year-old gunman armed with an AR-15 rifle killed 19 students and two teachers at the Robb Elementary School in the small, Hispanic town ofThe shocking attack was the worst in the state’s history, and I still often think about the parents who had to identify the bodies of their dead children, or survivors such as 11-year-oldThree days after that shocking event, I found myself...
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