Close reading of a murderers' stickers, their gab posts posted as screenshots (rather than reported on), murderers' faces on every front-page... Just pours gasoline on the fire and not informative. You know what would be informative? Analysis. Reporting rather than amplification.
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Spare me the "we gotta cover the news." WE'RE ASKING YOU TO COVER THE REAL NEWS and stop acting as extras in snuff film directed by murderers. The real news is the rise and normalization of hate speech and racism, guns, polarization fueling deranged killers—not another profile.
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There has been a cascade of research, analysis, organization and many, many voices on this. I started writing about this in long-form around 2012. Media incentive is to keep us looking at this wreck, though. It's the business model plus ideology.https://twitter.com/markemer/status/1056229053949267968 …
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Congrats, everyone sharing the killer's screenshots from the killer's social network of choice. They're thrilled with all the new potential recruits. (Yes yes this is how it works. Can't you report on what's going on without becoming recruitment tools? It's not that hard.)pic.twitter.com/7zoUuJHlOn
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Really scary when so many are getting their news from social channels with no incentive to minimize copycats.
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Conspiracies are a client side algorithms. Not disagreeing about publishing names & making antiheros, but the idea that there is much that can be done for someone who believes every word out of an anchors mouth is designed to spin an elaborate plot can't be helped from that end.
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I agree with this. I live in Toronto and US media coverage of a recent tragic event was eye opening in terms of how stupid and unhelpful much coverage has become (van ramming incident focused on pointless coverage of the perpetrators motivation)
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Hi there is your unroll: Thread by
@zeynep: "If media can't figure out how to cover terrorism without amplifying the conspiracies (straight-up "debunking" is amplifi […]" https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1056224867748626432.html … Talk to you soon.
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and keep playin their games... that’s what the news does with murders/death in real life.