Topic: Tucson Shooting

The media's continued focus on the Tucson shooting involving Jared Lee Loughner is analyzed, specifically a Time Magazine cover story by Richard Stengel. The hosts criticize the editorial shift from "people kill people" to "guns kill people" and the scrutiny of political rhetoric under the First Amendment.

An NPR commentary by Daisy Hernandez is criticized for using the term "gringo" to describe the Tucson shooter. John Dvorak argues that the use of a disparaging slang term for foreigners against white Americans in their own country is an unacceptable double standard that NPR permitted.