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.
“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.”
Maybe we can go back even further than that and take it all the way to today with the reading of Romeo & Juliet. Students have been reading Shakespeare for centuries and this theory believes that reading Shakespeare encourages murder and suicide?
What if instead of blaming Shakespeare for murders and suicides, or blaming news outlets for mass shootings and violence in the streets of America, we place the responsibility on those that actually commit those violent acts?