Newtown un an plus tard: les médias se feront discrets à la demande des familles.

C'est samedi qu'on commémorera les événements du 14 décembre 2012 à Newtown. À la demande des familles, les médias respecteront l'intimité de la communauté. Les familles ont plutôt opté pour la création d'une page web pour honorer la mémoire des disparus.

 "A massive influx of journalists, particularly those lugging TV cameras and equipment, is rarely welcome anywhere. But few journalists can remember when a semiofficial request for the media to stay away has been heeded, as it apparently will be in Newtown on Saturday.

“I don’t remember it happening in Aurora,” the Denver suburb where 12 died and 70 were injured in a movie theater shooting last year, said Margaret Low Smith, senior vice president for news at NPR. “And I don’t remember it in Littleton,” after the shootings at Columbine High in 1999. But, she added, “we’re all human beings, and we get it.”

 Among others, CNN, Fox News, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, NPR, PBS NewsHour, the New York Times, USA Today and The Washington Post all said they do not intend to send journalists to Newtown a year after the mass shooting that sparked worldwide horror and renewed calls for federal gun control.

Several Connecticut TV stations also said they did not intend to report from Newtown on Saturday.

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