Why we're so fixated on 'selfie' deaths | JillFilipovic for CNNopinion
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On Sunday, college student Andrea Norton, just 20 years old, was repositioning herself for a photo, police said, when she fell to her death on a hiking trip in the Ozarks. The same weekend, college student Sydney Monfries fell to her death after climbing the Fordham University bell tower and sending out a video via Snapchat.
Jill FilipovicThe coverage of these two tragedies has been less than solemn. Norton, some early news reports said, died taking a selfie .Meanwhile, Monfries died, according to one lurid headline,"while trying to get Instagram photos" . Meanwhile, a major US network headlined a piece "Selfie leads to two women's deaths;" elsewhere on the internet, commenters on the many news stories about these women's deaths were remarkably callous.
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