Good luck! If it bleeds it leads. First rule of journalism.
It is also made worse by the pavlovian response of some politicians to immediately point to the inanimate piece of metal as the root of all evil.
Rarely do I agree with Vox...................
The media wants 24/7 coverage because it helps them push for gun control. Ask CBS why they added "Newtown, CT." on their list of cities with HI/LO temps for the day. Does anyone care what the temp in Newtown is OR does the media want to keep focus on these incidents so as to push gun control. Shep Smith spent the whole day recounting all the school shooting for the past 15 years, memorializing the killers. sheesh, it's all about politics.
The number one mantra of newspapers has always been..”If it bleeds, it leads!”
If there is nothing happening that day, it is referred to as a “Dead cat day.” You throw a dead cat in front of a politician and report on his reaction.
... As I look up and see the killers face plastered all over FoxNews.
I actually agree with this. The more school shootings that we have, the more it gets ingrained into the psyche of others with problems that they can go out in a ‘blaze of glory’.
If anyone wants to pass laws, I think they should pass one where it’s illegal to use the name of any minor who commits capital violence against other minors in any reporting.
...and before you jump on the first amendment band wagon, consider the fact that the right to privacy trumps the right to free speech in many ways. This one could be written such that the right to the privacy of victims against their assailant. Seeking a kind of ignoble fame should not be the right of an attacker and the privacy of the victims should be considered.
Not only are we giving them fame, we are rolling out the red carpet to them.
Here’s our kids. Totally unprotected. Come get them, then watch us cry about it while we do anything and everything other than solve the problem.
We are a nation of total idiots.
We need small neighborhood schools.
It’s harder to kill kids you’ve known all your life.
Put guns at any gathering and announce it. The shootings will stop.
One thing for sure, the media gives not a rip about tragedy.
Like vultures they flock to the dead bodies for the ratings feast.
Maybe everytime something like yesterday happens, instead of talking non-stop about gun control, we should all start talking non-stop about media control? In the most serious terms possible. Talk about howling! Lol, I’d actually like to see it. Put the shoe on the other foot for a change.
Reminds me of the destruction of the ancient Temple of Diana at Ephesus. One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the temple was a magnificent structure known far and wide.
And then a guy named Herostratus burned it down. Herostratus did this because Herostratus wanted to be famous for doing something. Herostratus didn’t care what he got famous for, but Herostratus wasn’t good at much, so burning the temple was the best that Herostratus could do.
This act was so heinous that the ancient authorities decreed that the name of Herostratus should be stricken from all records so that no one would ever know that Herostratus was the one that burned the temple. No one would know the name of Herostratus and that way Herostratus would not be famous.
Cool idea.
But then some Greek Historian wrote about it.
Do they actually get fame anymore? I mean sure for the next couple of day everybody will remember his name, but by next week, out of the headlines, out of mind. By the time he reaches trial if it even makes the news most folks won’t remember his name.
Capture them, try them in secret the next day and execute them in secret the day after. Then “what terrorist?”
As long as there is a democrat party, mass shooters will achieve their desired fame. The fact that many of the recent mass shooters were known, or reported to, the FBI with no follow up indicates that the left wants nothing done about the shooters. They want them to exist as an issue to exploit in the same way they want “dreamers” or DACA to continue existing without relief so it can be a permanent scab issue they can pick at will for votes.
The book “The Gift of Fear” had some interesting ideas for how to cover mass-shootings without glorifying them. As I recall, it went something along the lines of “A pathetic and incompetent individual decided to take out his rage on a group of innocent children today. The shooter, who was known by his classmates as “Mr. Poopy-pants”.....”
If shooters think they can get respect by killing people, they will. If they think it will make people mock them even worse, maybe they won’t.
Media outlets should withhold the shooter’s identity. It’ll get out on social media anyway, but at least they won’t become TV celebrities for mass murder. I bet it will stop some of them a lot more than some stupid gun ban.
We should also bring back the electric chair for these kinds of crimes. Or, maybe an iron maiden or brazen bull. It may not stop them, but maybe encourage them to at least blow their brains out before the police can cuff them.
I don’t ever hear the experts on any of the news channels ask; What does Israel do for their schools?
I have been saying that ever since Columbine.
These freaks with their brains fried on Ritalin, Adderall, Evekeo, Dexedrine, etc, etc and violent video games want their #metoo (yeah I hijacked the hashtag) moment of fame as they try to out do each other.
It’s not the guns. It’s a lack of parenting that cause these shootings and the fuze is lit by the media for the next one to happen.
We don’t need to know the name/ age of the shooter. We don’t need to see their psychotic mugs plastered on TV and print. If the psychopath is dead, run his corpse through a wood chipper and bury whats left in a landfill. In the recent one, take him out behind the courthouse, shoot him in the head and follow the above disposal procedure.