Damn fucking straight, CNN aired the Annapolis survivors' "fuck"s uncensored

There was another mass shooting in America today, an occurrence now so bleakly common that we could probably just go back to one of our other stories about one and copy and paste some text here, instead of writing a new description. Today’s incident—which killed at least five people, and wounded many more—took place in Annapolis, Maryland this afternoon, as a gunman opened fire on the offices of Capital Gazette Publishing, publisher of multiple newspapers in the Annapolis area.

Well-practiced at this point, the media has already moved through most of the normal motions of its post-mass-shooting response, interviewing survivors, speculating on motives, and assembling details about the alleged shooter. (Supposedly, a man with a long-standing grudge with one of the publishers’ papers.) Some small kudos is in order to CNN, though, which made a decision to respect the survivor’s words and emotions today, in defiance of usual standards of “decorum” (or maybe “civility”). Specifically (and understandably) Selene San Felice—a reporter who covered the Pulse nightclub shootings in 2016, and who says she prayed every moment she was huddled under a desk today—said “fuck” multiple times during her description of the day’s events, and CNN chose not to bleep it out. (A departure from the network’s usual policies.)