BBC reporter on the San Bernardino shooting: 'Just another day in the United States'
BBC's correspondent, James Cook, who lives on and covers the West Coast of the U.S. for the British media organization, blasted the United States' pattern of mass shootings in a report from San Bernardino.
"Just another day in the United States. Another day of gunfire, panic, and fear," Cook says in an introduction to a newsreel about the San Bernardino attack that left 14 dead and at least 17 injured when two suspects opened fire on a holiday party.
Cook's reporting sounds startlingly like that of a war zone correspondent, a tone some U.S. media organizations have conceded as fair. "Distressingly accurate," Think Progress wrote of Cook's comment. "Sadly, that's pretty much accurate," The Huffington Post agreed.
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By some accounts, there have been 355 mass shootings in the United States in 336 days.
