On this Friday edition of The Editors, Rich, Charlie, and MBD are appalled at the skewed media coverage in the wake of the horrific shooting at a Christian school in Nashville.

Charlie doesn’t think he’s “ever seen an incident such as this one in which the perpetrator has been treated, reflexively, as if she were the victim. It seems to me that the press just writes the same thing, whatever happens. If a Christian had killed six transgender people, what would look different about the headlines in media segments that we’ve seen? . . . I can’t move for pieces about how this has ‘sent a chill through the transgender community.’ I have seen precisely zero pieces about how this has and should have scared Christian children.

As opposed as he is to “groups” and generalizations, he goes on to say that, “This was, it seems, an attack by one person on another for an offense, a perceived offense, a grievance. And even if it wasn’t, in most circumstances in the press, it would have been treated as such if the details had been reversed. I can’t believe how this is being covered.”

MBD agrees, and says: “I think for a lot of people, the coverage is almost deranging in its effect. . . . If you were fearful about the lost social prestige of Christianity before, or maybe even paranoid about it, you’ve been given much more reason to be this week. . . . Three nine-year-old children were erased in favor of their killer.”