Networks Describes Texas School Massacre with Shock, Anger, and Resignation: “Always Praying That Things Are Different”

In the early hours of the horrific massacre of 18 children and an adult at a Texas school, CNN’s Jake Tepper said voicing the thoughts and prayers of politicians “has unfortunately become a cliché at this point.”

But even calling it a cliché is like a cliché, while mass murders and especially school massacres continue.

Ed Lavandera, who filmed for CNN, was able to give an idea of ​​the meeting room set up for parents at Ross Elementary School, as he remembered the same series for Sandy Hook Elementary. You hear the screams and cries of the parents there,” he said.

In the afternoon, broadcast networks were hacked with special reports with plans to send morning and evening news anchors to Texas. Lester Holt will host on Wednesday NBC Nightly News Wawald is from Texas and David Moore will be there. World news tonight. Tony Dokupil will be presenter CBS tomorrow Y CBS Evening News From there, after testing positive for Covid over the weekend with Nora Odonell.

While officials confirmed the scale of the massacre, radio and cable broadcasts combined news coverage with analysis. Many of the comments were attempts to explore why so little was done to stop the carnage, decades after Columbine, almost 10 years after Sandy Hook, and more than four years after Marjorie Stoneman Douglas.

Holt nodded. NBC Nightly News He tells the audience on Tuesday: “We pray that everything will be different every time, every time. We’re looking for motives, we’re looking for answers, we want these horrific scenes never to happen again.”

Brett Bayer told Fox News about this. special report “You put it where you put it: Democrat, Republican, independent.” It cannot be extended. It just can’t be.”

MSNBC focused on the permissibility of Texas gun laws. John Haleman pointed to a Twitter post Greg Abbott made in 2015 while running for governor, where he wrote that he was “ashamed” (in every sense) that the state ranked second for all new purchases in California. “Let’s speed up, Texans. @NRA.”

Another political analyst, Matthew Dood, said in Texas that “all incumbent political leaders, Republicans, want nothing to do with gun reform.”

Fred Gutenberg, whose daughter Jamie was shot dead at a Parkland school in 2018. “They lost our kids again,” he told MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace.

Carnage on Fox News was the focus Five, With a mix of reports from Bill Melguin and a debate among experts on whether it’s the right time to talk about politics.

“He doesn’t like talking about it because I don’t think it’s positive,” said Greg Gutfeld. Guest Kellan Conway said: “I just want to warn politicians, Republicans and Democrats. [and] There are many people in the media. “Don’t click on these innocent kids tonight to understand their politics.”

But politics, regular Janine Pirro said, was inevitable, suggesting that what stood in the way of the solution was fear of guns. Asked what the political barriers to having armed guards in schools are, Jesse Waters said, “The downside is that most people today are intimidated. If anyone has a gun, they’ll step in. They’re scared. It’s a new narrative.”

This may be a new idea, but as we’ve seen in many other mass murders, the scenario is always the same.