This evening Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is recovering from surgery for being shot in the head as part of an attack that killed six people, including a federal judge. Reports say that a total of 18 people were injured.
As with so much of the news these days, I first learned about it from Twitter. In this case, it was a message from the media news site Mediaite.
Even in the midst of such a tragedy, it is always interesting to me to see how news spreads. Here are a number of links that look at how social media, the web, and legacy media have handled this story today.
- Mashable had an interesting Tweet and blog post this evening looking at how news about the shooting story emerged through social media.
- Arizona Republic’s story on accused shooter Jared Loughner’s use of social media
- Accused shooter Jared Loughner’s YouTube page
- Map targeting Gabrielle Giffords formerly posted on Sarah Palin’s Facebook page.
- Rep. Giffords reacting to Palin’s map and “crosshairs” list back when it was first posted back in March
- Daily Kos’s Markos Moulitsas with an accusatory Tweet
- Excellent profile of shooter from the Arizona Daily Star
- President Obama’s comments on shootings from C-SPAN
More later
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