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Ed Suspicious

(8,879 posts)
Fri Dec 14, 2012, 07:25 PM Dec 2012

How the media should handle mass shootings as to not encourage more of the same...

"Don't sensationalize mass shootings, do localize the coverage and make it as boring as possible to the rest of the country, because every time we see these sensationalized accountings of the events we can expect to see one or two more shootings..."

http://www.upworthy.com/how-the-media-coverage-of-mass-shootings-makes-everything-worse?g=2&c=ufb1

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How the media should handle mass shootings as to not encourage more of the same... (Original Post) Ed Suspicious Dec 2012 OP
The media has defied every suggestion from this video today. If it bleeds it leads is for real Ed Suspicious Dec 2012 #1
reverend al is millking this cow for all he's worth nt msongs Dec 2012 #2
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