From watching Lester Holt’s framing of NBC’s report on the mass shooting at a Prague college campus, you’d be forgiven for thinking the shooting happened in the United States, given his unwarranted insertion of domestic narrative points into the story.
Watch as Holt puts domestic political narrative into a report about something that happened across the pond:
LESTER HOLT: We start overseas tonight, and a scourge that seems to know no boundaries. A mass shooting at a college campus that this time has taken at least 14 lives, in a country where gun crimes are said to be relatively low.
The “scourge” is, of course, school shootings. “This time” suggests that there were prior times. Is Prague known for a spike in school shootings? Is this a common thing? Again, the language is meant to trigger a domestic tie-in.
But then Holt…
