Thursday, June 11, 2009

Accommodating Shooters

One of the things that shooters, like the guy yesterday at the Holocaust Museum, want is to go out in a blaze of glory. They want to publicize their "cause." And the media accommodates them by spending hours talking about them, showing pictures of them, repeating their name endlessly, analyzing why they did it, talking at great length about the "purpose" of the shooting. The media should not speak their name, should not mention their cause, and should get the whole subject of the shooter (not necessarily the event) off of the air as soon as possible.

"An unnamed shooter fired into a crowd at the Holocaust Museum today, in what has been confirmed as a hate crime. To avoid granting the killer's wish for publicity we are not naming him or his cause. Killed were..."

2 comments:

  1. bruce8:47 AM

    A great idea, but the buttholes in the media won't accomodate you, sorry.

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  2. Hubband did say to th enes report, "Alleged shooter? What is so alleged about who did it?"

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