Without Shame or Concern Media Promotes Spree-Murder Contagion Again

By Ammoland

Opinion: Senseless breathless reports contain little news.

USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- This is the right time to remember JPFO’s “Don’t Inspire Evil” Initiative

News outlets that feature and name mass murderers border on criminality. They don’t advance the news story – they only encourage copycats. Reporters, editors and producers know this, they’ve seen it, they’ve been warned by police, doctors and their own watchdog agencies–plus the criminals themselves tell them so. “But it increases our audience and revenues!” they cry (or silently admit).

“In the first 90 seconds on any news channel you’ll get all the news you’re going to get,” said Alan Korwin, an author and consultant to JPFO. “Where it happened, how many dead and injured, what was used, and pointless speculation on why, which is unknown. After that it’s just lurid and morbid repetition, endless background “B-roll” image loops and talking heads, with armored police and hypnotic flashing lights,”

Korwin notes. “The media knows it, viewers know it, and crazed criminals waiting to act know it. It encourages them and they tell us so, but media continues the cycle of blood and headlines anyway.”

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Source:: AmmoLand