Capital Gazette: "A Damn Paper"

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🗓️ 18 February 2021

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Part 1: Five colleagues are shot dead. Everyone is traumatized. On that day, June 28, 2018, what can the remaining staff of the Capital Gazette do that might make a difference? Publish "a damn paper."

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Kelly McEvers and this is Embedded from NPR.
0:05.9	There's this thing that happens in our country, this uniquely awful American thing.
0:12.5	It's become so common, I don't even have to say what it is for you to know what I'm
0:16.8	talking about.
0:17.8	I can just say where it happened.
0:20.3	In Denver, suburb of Aurora.
0:22.4	A Sikh temple in Wisconsin.
0:23.8	A historic mother-amannual AME church.
0:25.8	Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, the Pulse Night Club in Las Vegas, country music,
0:30.9	high school in Parkland, Florida.
0:32.4	It's the tree of life synagogue.
0:34.2	Thirty hours after El Paso, another massacre.
0:37.9	This one indeed, no hyal.
0:41.8	After one of these mass shootings, we all know what happens next.
0:46.3	Breaking news.
0:47.3	A lone gunman from a 32nd floor hotel window shooting at thousands of helpless concert
0:51.5	goers below.
0:52.5	Then, we're standing by for a vigil tonight.
0:56.0	Candulate vigils.
0:57.0	Two thousand singing hymns while trying to console each other.
1:01.1	Thoughts and prayers from politicians.
1:04.0	Sometimes, on the news, a survivor stands out, like Celine Sanfeles.
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