The very first yardstick is making sure something is newsworthy. They must be things that will affect a lot of people of all kind and things that will affect these said people for a long time. This topic is very sad and this incident should not have happened but it has not met the standards of newsworthiness. The man talked about is fine and they said it is not believed to be connected to other shooting on interstate 10 so it is not that relevant to people who don't know this cop. Also this happened in Pheonix so it would only be semi-relevant to people in Pheonix. If it was connected to the other shootings then it would be more relevant but still not that newsworthy. The shooting are still only relevant to people who live over in the area.
The article under the interrogation lamp is here.
The original article is a valid news article. A big topic in the nation right now is police violence: both violence committed by police and violence committed against police. This article fits in with that national trend, and is therefore newsworthy and of interest to a national audience.
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