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Posted by: Aythor
Is ridiculous.
For weeks, and sometimes months, mass killers are raised to high levels of infamy and notoriety, exactly what they wanted.
News organisations pretty much say to would-be killers "Hey, go on, kill a bunch of people and we'll make you famous"
Hundreds of ludicrous news reports, childhood photographs and analyses by "psychiatric professionals" are published after a tragedy like this happens.
This mindless sensationalism exists only to sell papers, with little thought of the lasting impact.
When events like this happen, the media should report it, and move on, rather than go fishing for all the little details about the killer they can find.
They do this all the time for international disasters, but they do it so quietly that you don't even notice it.
When a disaster happens in said news shows' country, however . .
[Edited on 12.17.2012 11:55 AM PST]