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Originally Posted by cswett5234
It seems like the shooters all want their 15-minutes of fame and the media caters to them. First thing they do is to interview all his friends, family, classmates, we learn about his interests, social media posts, red flags that were missed, where he lives, his manifesto if he had one...MAKES THEM FAMOUS!
STOP IT! Just say there was an unidentified shooter and keep him anonymous until it's time for their trial (or identifying their body).
(putting my soapbox away now, thanks for listening to my rant, I feel better)
Clint
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No need to apologize. I am sure most people can agree with most of what you said.
Media, sadly, is in it for the money. Back "in the day" news was a public service. Today it is a major money making profit center for each and every media outlet.
Since there is no longer a publicly funded media - like the BBS in Britain or PBS used to be here, we are left with for profit media (news). And well, it shows. Money is God to almost all for profit companies. How what they do impacts peoples lives is of little importance to them, only what makes the most money. If they are public companies they are required by law to do/say what makes the most money, or they can be sued by stock holders. There is no law allowing stock holders to sue them for lying just to make money.
I don't know how to solve that.
We could go to a socialist society and heavily regulate or completely control news media, or we can live with what capitalism gives us and vote with our dollars. Or the last option (it seems to me) is a Democratic Socialism that regulates all for profit companies to some degree depending on how their actions impact society.
We seem to need to make a decision ... or not.