Your Opinion On Airing School Killer On TV

minimus

It seems like there's a rash of copycat killers itching to get media attention. Do you think the media goes too far with detailing such atrocities???

Gopher

There's a balance that needs to be struck here. Certainly the public has a right to know the news.

However, I read one comment that struck home -- the media really should have focussed on the 32 victims, what each was accomplishing and hoped to do, and the effects on the friends and families of these victims. If after each of these massacres, the result was a focus on the victims rather than the psychotic individual who pulled the trigger, it would bring a much better balance.

I really don't want to know all the details about the killer's mindset. Leave that to the authorities and their psychologists, who may actually be able to take some action. It doesn't do me much good to see the psycho pointing a gun at the camera on a tape mailed to NBC News.

nvrgnbk

As the mainstream media continues to be more and more linked to mega-corporations, their real motivation, profit, continues to become more and more obvious. Responsible journalism is of little or no import to them.

Nvr

free2beme

In case people forget, many of the school shottings of the 1990's all happened within a few shorts years or months of each other. This is no doubt, an example of people (kids or adults) wanting to do something for attention and they see an example of something that worked. The sooner you bury it, the better.

minimus

I appreciate detailed news. But certain things should not be shown on mainstream media. Like beheadings.

DJK

They gave the killer to much publicity. If they never said much about him, he would have gone down as the nobody he should be.

tetrapod.sapien

they give the governent all the air time they want, why shouldn't other killers get some too?

seriously. they keep going on and on about how this is the biggest massacre in the history of the grand ol USA. but that's total BS. maybe a single individual with a gun, but not the largest.

blood is spilled and are people robbed with the stroke of a pen, and this mentally ill korean kid is supposed to be the devil. riiiiiiiight.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wounded_Knee_Massacre

http://www.onlineutah.com/bearrivermassacre.shtml

tetra

BizzyBee

Tetra, thanks for those interesting links.

My opinion on the question is that we have seen and heard enough of the killer.

Didn't we pretty much know before he was identified that he was going to turn out to be mentally ill? So what can be learned by the lay public by hearing his deranged rantings over and over? Not much.

bikerchic

In a perfect world there would be no killing to air on TV. That's what I want! So I just turn the TV channel I really don't want to watch any killing and especially not have it analyzed to *coff,coff* death over and over again. We don't need so much negativity today.

Just my .02

J-ex-W

Tetra, thanks for those interesting links.
My opinion on the question is that we have seen and heard enough of the killer.
Didn't we pretty much know before he was identified that he was going to turn out to be mentally ill? So what can be learned by the lay public by hearing his deranged rantings over and over? Not much.

I have to agree with this. For me, I consider the coverage of the killer to be educational--but that's because I'm majoring in psych and will probably focus on personality types, personality disorders, and abuse. But I could learn about this stuff from psych classes and psych books rather than on publicly broadcasted media.

This way, it wouldn't fulfill the killer/ abuser's fantasies of immortal infamy, to be relagated to a simple blurb on a text page...along with other similar simple blurbs on the text page...to be seen by psych examiners with insight and without the fear that those perpetrators lived to incite (among the general public). Yeah...stop the media mushroom cloud from spreading. Keep it in mason jar.

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