If media can't figure out how to cover terrorism without amplifying the conspiracies (straight-up "debunking" is amplification) that help inspire it and instead runs even more front-page profiles of the killer rather than analysis of WHY WE ARE HERE, we'll just get more copycats.
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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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Yep. Same with Trump. They make cash off him making half the country full of hate and the other half terrified. 24 hour “news” needs something.
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I think that’s about when I started following you. I heard you on NPR making sense.
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This also applies to the breakdown of democratic norms in Brazil and Latin America. Media keeps us looking at wreck instead of trying to develop alternative project that can win.
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Outlaw the business model.
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Re: business model. If media struggling financially, then revenue generating coverage will always supersede responsible coverage. Focus shld be on finding sustainable revenue stream that will b in harmony w responsible journalism.
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Legislation may be required, like - No portrait of SOB. - No name, use derogatory nickname instead. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damnatio_memoriae …
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Media wins if the ‘show’ goes on , eventually if people are bored they will change the narrative, till then.. party on.
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