Is it your view that it is the media’s fault for covering murders and mass shootings as the media coverage of these incidents only serves to cause others to act violently and murder in workplaces, stores or on the streets of the large cities?
If no murders and other violence was not reported in the media, there would be less murder and violence?
There is some encouragement of ordinary murder and crime by the type of coverage.
But the extravagant coverage of mass murder clearly induces those on the edge to mass murder.
There has been a lot of academic study on this.
The phenomena of the copy cat effect was first discovered in 1774, with a large number of suicides copying the method used in a novel.