Posted on 10/02/2015 7:44:04 AM PDT by marktwain
The media knows that the more attention that they pay to mass killing perpetrators, the more incentive they create for mass killings. The effect is known as the “Copycat Effect“. It is a well known and researched phenomena. Endless promotion of these tragic events and the publicity given to the perpetrators is far more of a causal factor than the Second Amendment.
CBS news relates the latest evidence that media coverage of his name and face was one of the primary motivations for the Umpqua shooter. From cbsnews.com:
In one post on the blog about Vester Flanagan, the man who killed the reporter and cameraman in Virginia, Mercer apparently wrote, “I have noticed that so many people like [Flanagan] are alone and unknown, yet when they spill a little blood, the whole world knows who they are. A man who was known by no one, is now known by everyone. His face splashed across every screen, his name across the lips of every person on the planet, all in the course of one day. Seems like the more people you kill, the more you’re in the limelight.”
Over 20 years ago, Clayton Cramer wrote a paper on the ethical problems of promoting mass killings in the media. It was published in a the Journal of Mass Media Ethics, 9:1 [Winter 1993-94]. It won First Place, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Ethics Prize, 1993, Undergraduate Division.
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I didn’t even realize I left out the word.
Thx
After looking at a lot of Matt Wuerker’s work, I should say, reliably *far* leftist.
I picked it up off of pookie.18’s daily cartoon dump here @ FR this past Monday, I think?
Now, isn't the timing of that kind of odd?
It is odd, but in a good way.
He shows the responsibility of the media in promoting this sort of mass killing.
I am surprised that he created it. I suspect that he came up with the idea independently, not knowing that it has been a known effect for hundreds of years, and that the media is deliberately using it for political influence and profits.
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