The victims and their families will get to here the “A-hole’s” name a thousand times in the next few weeks. Thier loved ones? Maybe a few times on air then back to...BREAKING: Where is flight MH370?
Do you think these victims and their families will every hear “the killer’s” name and not cringe?
Was this attack modeled on or an attempt to at least emulate the previous killer? Yes, that’s very likely.
Was it an attempt to gain fame or infamy? Yes, most definitely.
As I said in another post here, we had a local radio host (Al Roney) that for a long time flat refused to use the name of a mass killer on air. Megan Kelly is from here!
She made a point, now it’s a story => I’m good with it,
From the standpoint of a thirty-year journalist, I respectfully disagree. I can understand her rationale, but Kelly’s job is not to make value judgments. Her job is to report facts.
Yes, she’s made her point. But from a journalistic standpoint, she’s wrong. The shooter made world news and her reporting was deliberately incomplete. In my newsroom that would earn her some time off.