In this wildly popular game, you kill a journalist. 'Make him famous in a different way.'
An image from the mobile game"Sniper 3D Assassin." By Angela Fritz Angela Fritz Deputy Editor on the General Assignment News Desk Email Bio Follow May 19 at 2:03 PM The mission is called Breaking News. It’s the seventh mission in the game, and it comes after you’ve upgraded your sniper rifle to shoot at a distance of nearly 1,000 feet with accuracy.
New York Times editor Jamal Jordan shared an image of the game on Twitter and said his nephew invited him to play. “My nephew is 10, and we had a very long talk after,” Jordan told HuffPost. As examples, the guidelines cite “realistic portrayals of people or animals being killed, maimed, tortured, or abused, or content that encourages violence. ‘Enemies’ within the context of a game cannot solely target a specific race, culture, real government, corporation, or any other real entity.”
On June 28, a man shot multiple journalists at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Md. Five people died and two were injured. Before the shooting, the alleged killer had sent letters to courthouses and a law firm stating: “I further certify I then did proceed to the office of respondent Capital-Gazette Communications . . . with the objective of killing every person present,” according to the Baltimore Sun.
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