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    December 9, 2015
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    #50 Media B&E In San Bernardino/Bill 59/Bad For Shad
    National Post writer and editor Jen Gerson on the ethics of reporting from the San Bernardino shooters' apartment, Bill 59, and Simon Houpt's critique of Shad.
    Jesse Brown
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    Kevin Sexton
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    National Post writer and editor Jen Gerson on the ethics of reporting from the San Bernardino shooters’ apartment, Bill 59, and Simon Houpt’s critique of Shad.

    Allie Jones’s Gawker piece, Cable News Is Going Nuts Rummaging Around Inside the San Bernardino Shooters’ Apartment

    Lauren O’Neil’s CBC News piece, Reporters root through San Bernardino shooters’ apartment on live TV

     

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