Reporters always warn me about the not-so-polite fiction that is “impartial” news reporting. They also warn that you really shouldn’t try to figure out how news is made if you get outraged quickly.
The media scrum post San Bernardino shooting is a case in point. As Politico’s Jack Shafer says,
The sensationalist footage was enough to give even a First Amendment absolutist pause as MSNBC’s camera made it easy to read the name, address and other information from a driver’s license.