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To: rellimpank
... if a fan runs onto the field during a baseball game, the broadcast cameras usually avoid showing pictures of the fan. The TV producers know that the fan on the field is seeking attention, and that, presumably, getting his picture on television will reward him. Moreover, broadcasting the man's antics would encourage copycats. Killing time at a baseball game is a tiny misdeed, compared to killing people, but many media decisions have the effect of encouraging copycat murders.

Sick, but true.

2 posted on 12/15/2007 7:49:41 AM PST by GOPJ (Dems! Would you trust a pilot's wife to land a plane just because she's a frequent flyer??)
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To: GOPJ

The media will be responsible and refrain from granting these heinous murderers the attention they crave. /sarc>


3 posted on 12/15/2007 7:53:53 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie
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