MRandall25 wrote:The media is also part of Dish's problem. We hear about these things and suddenly we devote an entire day (sometimes more) to talking about the event and the shooter. Don't give them the recognition. Report the facts. Children are dead. Unless the gunman is on the loose, no one cares about him. Stop making a big deal about his personal life. We don't even need to see his picture. Giving them the recognition gives other mentally ill individuals reinforcement for it. "Hey, I could be famous!"
No. Stop giving the shooter(s) recognition.
And, like I mentioned earlier, don't make it political.
Alejandro Rojas wrote:Here is a good article on that.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/josephgrenn ... -king-law/
Lt. Dish wrote:MRandall25 wrote:The media is also part of Dish's problem. We hear about these things and suddenly we devote an entire day (sometimes more) to talking about the event and the shooter. Don't give them the recognition. Report the facts. Children are dead. Unless the gunman is on the loose, no one cares about him. Stop making a big deal about his personal life. We don't even need to see his picture. Giving them the recognition gives other mentally ill individuals reinforcement for it. "Hey, I could be famous!"
No. Stop giving the shooter(s) recognition.
And, like I mentioned earlier, don't make it political.
I've read a good bit about it today, but the TV has been off all day. I couldn't bear to turn it on.
I apologize for my rant. I think I went over the top. Now it's too late to delete.![]()
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penny lane wrote:Lt. Dish wrote:MRandall25 wrote:The media is also part of Dish's problem. We hear about these things and suddenly we devote an entire day (sometimes more) to talking about the event and the shooter. Don't give them the recognition. Report the facts. Children are dead. Unless the gunman is on the loose, no one cares about him. Stop making a big deal about his personal life. We don't even need to see his picture. Giving them the recognition gives other mentally ill individuals reinforcement for it. "Hey, I could be famous!"
No. Stop giving the shooter(s) recognition.
And, like I mentioned earlier, don't make it political.
I've read a good bit about it today, but the TV has been off all day. I couldn't bear to turn it on.
I apologize for my rant. I think I went over the top. Now it's too late to delete.![]()
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<--grief
It's rare to see a female let loose here... if not today; when. Me, I go back to the Amish schoolhouse shooting. Very sad. Young girls as innocent as all, but they ready to die to try save the others.
I am going to step back from the television tonight.
MRandall25 wrote:The media is also part of Dish's problem...
And, like I mentioned earlier, don't make it political.
Tico Rick wrote:MRandall25 wrote:The media is also part of Dish's problem...
And, like I mentioned earlier, don't make it political.
Yes, let's blame the media while we ignore the elephant in the room. Maybe it will go away.
mac5155 wrote:Someone tell me the note I'm seeing on Facebook that a kid supposedly wrote is fake. Please...
Tico Rick wrote:MRandall25 wrote:The media is also part of Dish's problem...
And, like I mentioned earlier, don't make it political.
Yes, let's blame the media while we ignore the elephant in the room. Maybe it will go away.
ExPatriatePen wrote:Just found out I have a bit of a remote connection to this tragic event.
The last few years I've spent part of my winter in Key West. One of the couples I've made pretty good friends with come down from CT every winter and stay a few doors from the condo I rent.
It turns out they're from Newtown. They also have Grandkids that are exactly in this age category.
I believe that their Grandkids attend parochial school so they wouldn't have been at Sandy Hook, but I don't know for sure.
I don't want to call them and ask, it seems to crass, so I'm waiting for the names to be released and praying that I don't recognize any as being my friends Grandkids.
This sucks.
Factorial wrote:Why is the media being discussed here at all? If you don't want to see the coverage then don't watch. This is a story about the crazed individual and easy availability of guns that allowed so many to be killed so quickly. Yes, even if there were no guns available he could have used a kitchen knife or blown up the school using fertilizer ala Oklahoma City but anyone that doesn't see the easy availability of guns as being a problem is just kidding themselves.
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