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Nearly two dozen juveniles have been charged in connection with online threats made against schools in South Carolina since early September, the authorities said on Tuesday.

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According to the news release, the charges are part of a sprawling investigation into more than 60 threats targeting schools in 23 counties since Sept. 4, when the authorities say a 14-year-old gunman fatally shot two students and two teachers at his high school in Georgia.

Threats of mass violence have proliferated on social media since the Georgia shooting and have left law enforcement officials, who traditionally have been limited in their response to threats of possible violence, feeling exasperated. In Central California, several teens have been arrested in connection with threats. In Broward County, Fla., where 17 people were killed at a high school in Parkland in 2018, officials said last week that they had arrested nine students since August in connection with threats of violence.

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  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    310·
    2 months ago

    This is exactly the kind of law enforcement message that reporters should examine and challenge, rather than mindlessly repeat.

    I hate this sort of criticism. 90% of reporting is … reporting. It’s not editorializing.

    • gAlienLifeform@lemmy.worldOP
      61·
      2 months ago

      Sorry, but I’ve gotta disagree. Even in things you might just call “reporting”, there are always choices that have to be made in what facts a journalist chooses to include or exclude and whose claims of facts get examined and complicated for the readers and which are just taken at face value and repeated, and journalists should be pushed to make those choices in an intelligent and responsible way.

      e; added words to flesh out the same basic thought

      • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        52·
        2 months ago

        Reporters are very often not experts in the things they report on. You don’t want them injecting their own personal thoughts into every article. Picture an anti-vax reporter reporting on a CDC briefing.

        They’re reporting on what the guy said so that you know what was said. You can make the determination on whether it has merits or not and, in fact, you have. There are times where you need press to push back - that’s Journalism. But your average on-the-street reporter who isn’t an expert in everything isn’t equipped to do more than “observe and report” which is fine.

        • tquid@sh.itjust.works
          4·
          2 months ago

          Reporters doing their jobs also report on experts’ views for an alternative viewpoint. Which they should do any time a cop says anything.