Deference to the families of the schoolchildren and educators murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown in 2012 has gone much too far.
The latest manifestation of this deference was the decision of Connecticut’s only NBC television affiliate, WVIT-TV30 in West Hartford, not to broadcast Megyn Kelly’s Sunday-night interview with Alex Jones, provocateur of Infowars and promoter of the allegation that the school massacre was a hoax. The families of the victims had urged both NBC and WVIT to cancel the broadcast, and according to an internal memorandum obtained by other news organizations, the station chose not to air the interview because “the wounds” of the massacre “have yet to heal.”
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