So you are saying that we shouldn’t make a murdering POS famous by giving his identity, even though said POS is dead and no thus longer able to gain any satisfaction from seeing his name in print?
What’s the point?
Michael Frazier
Part of the motivation of spree killers is their belief that going on a murder spree will make them famous. The dirtbag murderer in NE made this quite clear. Other similar losers have bragged that their acts will "finally make people pay attention" to them or will show their alienated family, friends or coworkers what their imagined cruelty has done.
They see how the Columbine murderers and the Virginia Tech murderer and other similar detritus have not only had days and weeks of continuous media coverage, but that they have become cultural reference points.
Part of a spree killer's motivation is to do something which he believes will guarantee him the fame and attention that he has unfairly been deprived of.
If such scumbags saw that news organizations and cultural commentators ignore the murderers, give them no attention, do not broadcast their photos or videos, or disseminate their letters and manifestos, but simply cosnider them to be anonymous nobodies, most of the appeal that spree killing holds for the demented is gone.