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New media trend: Don’t name the killer

By Becket Adams
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New media trend: Don’t name the killer

CNN’s Anderson Cooper refused on Monday to say the name of the man who shot and killed 49 people this weekend at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla., continuing an increasingly popular policy of denying mass shooters the attention and infamy they are assumed to crave.

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