This is obviously a horrific unthinkable tragedy. Unfortunately news media companies just can't get enough of it. Just as they do with terrorist attacks, they are glorifying this murderer.
On the front page of the New York Times today was a picture of the killer that he mailed to NBC News. He also mailed numerous other pictures and videos that are now being aired on TV every 3 seconds.
Why would he mail all that stuff to NBC News? Because he wanted to be on the front page and all over the news. We are giving this guy exactly what he wanted, and even though he was deranged he knew that the news companies could not resist putting his sickening images and words in front of millions of people all over the world.
We must stop this sort of glorifying. All that this does is show other mentally unstable individuals that if they do this they will be all over the news and on the front page!
If we want things like this to stop happening we need to focus the news coverage not on the killer, but on the victims. If the news coverage was focused on the lives on the victims and not glorifying the killer, other deranged would-be killers will see the human faces of this tragedy and not inside the mind of a killer. They would also see that it would get them nowhere to do such things.
Unfortunately right now, all that would-be killers see is that if they do things like this they will become famous, and that is a tragedy in itself.
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