The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University Vol.
Violence pervades many of the neighborhoods around the schools.
So it's reasonable to assume that violence will occasionally invade the schools near them. Largely white, heavily Christian, predominantly conservative and politically Republican. A community not given to gang activity, which is what the public normally associates with violence. Whoever got there first and got the most information about what happened would write the main story. As it turned out, it was a police reporter and the higher education reporter.