Please don't push that big red button

The problem highlighted by the coverage of the healthcare CEO shooting, and the danger of telling audiences what to think. Or: never underestimate people's willingness to risk it all.

Lightness, lightness! Where’s my fucking lightness? So went the familiar roar from the editor at one newspaper I worked on - because it’s relatively easy to find tales of terrible things happening, harder to inject fun, wit and glamour into your output, day in day out, in the face of the news flow.

But this week I’ve been stumped. Never mind Selena gett…