I can’t stand it. The news are all on about how the Ohio mall shooter wrote in his suicide note how he was going to be famous–and guess what? The new outlets have made him famous! His name, his face, his life story, he’s gotten his 16 minutes of fame, and that’s 17 more minutes than he deserves.
Tell the news for god’s sake, absolutely. Discuss the victims, discuss behavioral disorders, all that. But do it without mentioning the shooter’s name and ever showing his face. He wanted to get famous by destroying other peoples’ lives, you news outlets have given him exactly what he wants–and every other disturbed, suicidal, narcissistic would-be massacre killer that sees this as justification to “make their life mean something in their death.”
Oh these people may still kill themselves. They may, tragically, take someone with them, but if we don’t go ahead and spend days, weeks, elevating these sick fucks into national news figures of infamy, I will guarantee you we’ll have less of them trying to vie for the title of next “Most Horrific Massacre Killer in History, To Date.”
The victims deserve attention, the subjects of depression and psychosis and sociopathy deserve attention, but leave the names and faces of the news-greedy psychos out of it. We can remember the Columbine killers’ names and faces, but can we remember any of the victims? We can remember the VA Tech killer’s name and face, but how about the people he killed? Now we got this new jackass to add to the list of fame seeking murderers. Thanks CNN, MSNBC, ABC, etc. ad nauseum.
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