Hey Julio.

Hey Maria, you're away reporting, but after all the news in Las Vegas,

before we drop our episode, I had to check in with you I literally just had to call you

the latest news we have is that a lone gunman Stephen Paddock killed 59

people and injured over 520 others while targeting a crowd of

over 22,000 people at a country music festival and that's you know that's the

latest we have so Maria and what are you feeling this

morning just sadness and just you know there's so much hate going on who

you're I'm feeling really sad like the rest of us and frustrated like the rest of us and

and feeling like holy shit this is not going to be the last time that happens and

just feeling helpless I think like like all of us.

Here's a question I have for you, Maria, because we talk a lot about this with race a lot, right?

But what about gender?

And this study that I read in Mother Jones totally, I mean mean it totally blew my mind. In the United States, 98% of those who have

committed mass shootings since 1982 have been male. So why don't we focus more on that Maria? You know, rest in peace to all of the people who were murdered, who were just at a country music concert.

But if I step back and I put my cynical journalist hat on,

it's important to remind people that our newsrooms have become less diverse.

So when you have less diverse newsrooms, it means that to make a generalization,

overwhelmingly who is deciding what's going to be on the front pages or the news

headlines or leading stories on television or radio. It's men. It's usually white men.

So I think it's really hard for people to put a critical eye on themselves and say what's the matter with us?

I mean I'm sure we're brilliant journalists and we're going to see this story and people have started to write about this. But hopefully at least that

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