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It's turkeys all the way down
Friday, reporters broadcasting live on MSNBC and CNN entered the apartment of the presumed San Bernardino shooters and either "rummaged" or "swarmed" through it, depending on whether you prefer to see them as bargain-hunting grannies or voracious locusts. "Swarmed" wins the Google News count by quite a bit. Media Twitter was shocked (shocked!) at such undignified behavior, and certainly MSNBC airing unredacted shots of Farook's mother's ID and social security card seemed like it was a little much. There was nothing newsworthy in the apartment, however, so the story immediately swallowed its own tail and became about whether they should have gone in or whether we should have watched. Or, in CNN's case, how much more responsible and restrained their vultures are compared to MSNBC's vultures. As of press time, no one had explained why picking through an empty apartment was worse than what everybody did in Newtown.