Donna Barela: Could social media provide ‘flags’ for dangerous behavior?

I read the Merced Sun-Star daily. I also watch HLN instead of CNN because I feel they report in a more kind and thoughtful manner (no sharp edges to wound the psyche of a 60-year-old grandmother who tries to make the lives of my loved ones, friends and people I haven’t met yet better). I see the teetering balance your newspaper tries to keep steady in the reporting of local and national and international scenarios that effect our lives.

I am asking myself, with the use of the now very popular “social media,” why can’t there be some type of warning or alert set up to “flag” keywords, phrases or past questionable behaviors that would have possibly prevented the televised murder of the news anchor and cameraman killed on Aug. 26?

Thank you for your hard work in providing news and information that allows me to remain an informed “Grammy.”

This story was originally published September 10, 2015 at 12:22 PM with the headline "Donna Barela: Could social media provide ‘flags’ for dangerous behavior?."