Big stories break, and journos go off to cover the stories? What's with that? Bonus: Future shooters, please schedule your actions with the needs of morning-show producers in mind.
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News of the horrific movie theater shooting in Colorado caused all three network morning shows to toss out their plans and switch to breaking news mode, and sent a flood of reporters from across the media to the Denver suburb where the events took place.
The shooting, at a screening of "The Dark Knight Rises," occurred in the small hours of Friday morning, giving the networks time to send correspondents to Aurora, CO and find eyewitnesses to the tragedy.
"Not the kind of news we want to bring you on a Friday morning," Matt Lauer said as he led off the coverage on "Today."
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Huffington Post]