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The public has an insatiable demand for all the gory details. The cable news outlets deliver what their viewers want to see.
But they don’t have to. They certainly didn’t used to do that. Someone posted a link the other day listing mass shootings at schools, and there was one in 1984 in California where 21 people were killed. If I heard about it at all, it was forgotten quickly because it was probably just a blurb on the evening news nationally. And the next one didn’t happen until several years later. That is not happening today.
Not a blackout, just back to the way they used to treat these things. They reported on it, but not wall to wall coverage for weeks, examining every thought and post of the shooter. I don’t think it’s possible to completely erase the information, nor should they, but they could refuse to name the shooter like they refuse to name rape accusers. Remember how they used to do that and it discouraged reporting so the media collectively decided to not name the accuser unless he or she wanted to be named?
That's simply not true.
Look at the coverage of Bonnie and Clyde and Charles Whitman.
Big news was always big news.
Its troubling how many Americans want the media to actively exclude important information from their stories. I've seen a few friends call for the same thing on social media over the weekend. I don't know if those who support such measures understand the implications of such measures.
But they don’t have to. They certainly didn’t used to do that. Someone posted a link the other day listing mass shootings at schools, and there was one in 1984 in California where 21 people were killed. If I heard about it at all, it was forgotten quickly because it was probably just a blurb on the evening news nationally. And the next one didn’t happen until several years later. That is not happening today.
Totally agree with this. The media should not splash the shooter(s)' names and pictures all over the broadcasts and online media, etc. This gives the mass murderers more than 15 minutes of unnecessary infamy. Sigh.
This would give the hoaxers even more ammunition to fuel their crazy ideas.
Just curious. What objective criteria does one have to meet to be considered a major school shooting instead of just a school shooting? There's been at least one school shooting every year since 1966.
YTD counts vary between 16-34 shootings, depending on what is included versus not.
Numbers vary by source and what was counted versus not. Some sources include shootings at college dorms. Others count only K-12.
Active shooter and multiple wounded get more media attention than a one on one incident.
How about don't ignore your kid's mental health and stop calling them quirky or special and tiptoe around them because self esteem. They actually complement these narcissists/ psychos, making them even more confident, without actually acknowledging with the evil within. Parents brag about how smart and clever their little psycho is. This is how you grow a violent criminal, let it think it has power over you and everyone else and it accepts that power.
Yet I've been told I'm a helicopter parent for not allowing my son with autism to walk to school by himself because I don't trust he'd get there. Even though his chronological age says he is old enough.
Yet I've been told I'm coddling my son because he gets emotional and behavioral therapy.
Yet I've been told I'm looking for the easy way out because we finally made the decision to medicate him.
Yet I've been told I am selfish because my son has a TSS worker in the classroom.
Yet I've been told my son shouldn't be around "normal" kids because of his diagnoses. Even though he's never ever hurt or has been mean to another student.
I've never tiptoed around his mental health. I've taken numerous measures to help him. And every parent I know who has a child with autism and other mental health/learning issues has done the same.
But they don’t have to. They certainly didn’t used to do that. Someone posted a link the other day listing mass shootings at schools, and there was one in 1984 in California where 21 people were killed. If I heard about it at all, it was forgotten quickly because it was probably just a blurb on the evening news nationally. And the next one didn’t happen until several years later. That is not happening today.
I posted a list of mass shootings not specifically school shootings. The 1984 incident took place in a McDonald's in San Ysidro.
Everyone has an anterior insular cortex, which is where such emotions related to empathy are processed.
Sociopathy is largely a learned behavior.
All of their decisions are based upon meeting their own needs and desires, without considering the needs of others. That's typical of children left to fend for themselves, because their parents are too busy working, and even when the parents are home, the parents are too wrapped up in their own little world to pay any attention to their children.
Because sociopaths are hell-bent on meeting their own needs and desires, they quickly learn how to manipulate and exploit others, including their own parents, to that end.
There are no ends to the limits they employ to manipulate and exploit others, including lying, threatening and domineering.
They get lots of practice doing that for the first 14-15 years of their lives, so that they're masters by the time they have 16 years.
They would have been better-off being raised in a Romanian orphanage during the Ceausescu Era.
The jury is out as to whether sociopaths are born or made so I think it unwise for anyone to state either as fact.
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