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CBS’s Vapid ‘Do Something’ Post-Winder Editorial

The CBS Evening News closed out their newscast with a commentary piece on the most recent school shooting in Winder, Georgia. The editorial was high on emotion, but offered little in the way of solutions beyond calls to “do something”. 

Watch the commentary in its entirety as aired on the CBS Evening News on Thursday, September 5th, 2024 (click “expand” for transcript):

CBS EVENING NEWS

9/5/24

6:56 PM

NORAH O’DONNELL: We’ve spent the last two days confronting a horrifying part of life in America these days: School shootings. Summer recess brought a break from that violence, but as we have all been reminded, that break is over because school shootings seem to be something we are unwilling or unable to change. Here is CBS’s Jim Axelrod with tonight’s “Eye on America.”

JIM AXELROD: So now we’ve got a new name atop the hideous list.

STUDENT:…

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