Mainstream Media is Cultivating Killers
I believe that mainstream media is encouraging and enabling mass shooters. One reason this assertion is correct is that these mass shooters primary purpose is to become famous, be remembered and go out bigger and better than their predecessors. Look at the media coverage of any of the mass shooting in the last thirty years. They plaster their picture and name all over the TV of every station for days and days. On the other hand, I feel that the media shouldn’t ever show a picture of any shooter, and if they give the name of the killer, it should be ambiguous like first name and the first letter of their last name only.
For instance, look at the Columbine High School shooting, which consequently only …show more content…
In an online article by Alicia C Shepard. And consequently in the initial frenzy to be the first to get the big story out first, proved to be a colossal blunder. The station KUSA around noon go live for ten hours straight, and all the other stations follow suit. Then they allowed a student on a live air feed to tell here some of the students were hiding, endangering them. Likewise, before their parents were notified, several stations showed live video feeds of gruesome and horrific scenes of students. In the same fashion one station aired a photo of one of the shooters from the yearbook which had the wrong student, showing an innocent student as the shooter all around the world for days. Throughout the Columbine massacre, every news origination around the globe showed the shooters names and photos for ten days and more. Illustrating what the mast shooters are precisely looking for, have the whole world stop and take notice of …show more content…
In the aftermath of Columbine High School, the FBI has been studying what motivates mass murders, in an online post in Mother Jones. One of the threat assessment agents stated way too many students around the nation had told him that they admired the Columbine shooters. While doing the investigation, the data shows the “Columbine Effect”: Across thirty states, they found over seventy-four plains and or attacks where the predators sated they were motivated to copy the Columbine shooting, consequently overshadowing it. The shooter of Tucson rampage posted on Myspace what he was going to do and said: “I’ll see you on National TV!” The threat assessment experts are demanding the media quit plastering the photos, and names of the shooters, as well stop placing catchy phrases associated with
I believe that mainstream media is encouraging and enabling mass shooters. One reason this assertion is correct is that these mass shooters primary purpose is to become famous, be remembered and go out bigger and better than their predecessors. Look at the media coverage of any of the mass shooting in the last thirty years. They plaster their picture and name all over the TV of every station for days and days. On the other hand, I feel that the media shouldn’t ever show a picture of any shooter, and if they give the name of the killer, it should be ambiguous like first name and the first letter of their last name only.
For instance, look at the Columbine High School shooting, which consequently only …show more content…
In an online article by Alicia C Shepard. And consequently in the initial frenzy to be the first to get the big story out first, proved to be a colossal blunder. The station KUSA around noon go live for ten hours straight, and all the other stations follow suit. Then they allowed a student on a live air feed to tell here some of the students were hiding, endangering them. Likewise, before their parents were notified, several stations showed live video feeds of gruesome and horrific scenes of students. In the same fashion one station aired a photo of one of the shooters from the yearbook which had the wrong student, showing an innocent student as the shooter all around the world for days. Throughout the Columbine massacre, every news origination around the globe showed the shooters names and photos for ten days and more. Illustrating what the mast shooters are precisely looking for, have the whole world stop and take notice of …show more content…
In the aftermath of Columbine High School, the FBI has been studying what motivates mass murders, in an online post in Mother Jones. One of the threat assessment agents stated way too many students around the nation had told him that they admired the Columbine shooters. While doing the investigation, the data shows the “Columbine Effect”: Across thirty states, they found over seventy-four plains and or attacks where the predators sated they were motivated to copy the Columbine shooting, consequently overshadowing it. The shooter of Tucson rampage posted on Myspace what he was going to do and said: “I’ll see you on National TV!” The threat assessment experts are demanding the media quit plastering the photos, and names of the shooters, as well stop placing catchy phrases associated with