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It's time for the media to stop making mass shooters famous
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Bruce W. Krafft
Website: http://www.keepandbeararms.com/
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"I won’t give the troubled man who shot two Virginia journalists on live TV last week the attention he so richly craved by using his name in this column."
"I won’t name the troubled man who just got 12 life sentences for shooting people at a theater in Colorado ... I can write about these people without making them more famous."
"It’s time for the rest of the media to follow suit, and quit pretending that we’re just doing our jobs. We’re not. We’re turning mass shooters into superstars."
"I did that once; I was the Northwest Herald’s lead writer when a gunman opened fire in 2008 on a classroom at my alma mater, Northern Illinois University. I don’t want to be a mass shooter’s public relations flack." ... |
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similar reasons as this demented chick: [their brand of] victim advocacy, donation$, fame, ideology, popularity, selling papers/advert time slots, etc...aggressively badgers her depressed boyfriend into committing suicide, then self-proclaims as mental health advocate...
msn.com/en-us/news/us/texts-reveal-teen%e2%80%99s-efforts-to-pressure-boyfriend-into-suicide/ar-AAdOwEu?
"After his death, Carter became a self-proclaimed advocate for mental health.
She organized a fundraising tournament in Roy’s memory and posted on Facebook and Twitter about her attempts to save her boyfriend’s life.
“Even though I could not save my boyfriend’s life, I want to put myself out here to try to save as many other lives as possible,” she wrote on Facebook." |
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