I've been writing this for years. Media sensationalism/loop is part of this cycle—school shootings to terrorism.http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/opinion/the-virginia-shooter-wanted-fame-lets-not-give-it-to-him.html …
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To all media that put videos of panic on loop: research is clear, such overwrought sensationalism helps inspire the next one. Good work.

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Public mass-murder terrorism—religious-inspired to white-supremacist to school shootings—has a media strategy. Media keeps cooperating.

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Putting panic videos on loop on TV or sharing gory pics has no news value, just horrifies people *and* encourages copycats. Shameful.
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There is nothing contested here that these videos help disprove, in which case one can have a difficult conversation on how much exposure.
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There are arguments for showing uncomfortable pics/videos. Exposing wrongdoing by authorities; highlighting ignored crisis. This is neither.
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When FBI went through mass killers' rooms, you know what they found?Troves of media coverage of previous ones. Inspires them and sets a bar.
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It's very difficult to stop people willing to die while killing—from school shootings to this—and as long as media cooperates, it escalates.
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Targeting children is part of this escalation cycle (like Sandy Hook). Terrorism and mass shootings are horrible, though very very rare.
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The ask isn't "don't cover the news." It's stop covering it as a media spectacle directed by the killers. Do it on *our* terms. Humane ones.
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Look, I am just as horrified by such news as anyone else. My visceral reaction is no different, despite all my statistical leanings.
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But it's 2017. We know how this goes. There are ways to cover this better—to modulate our response without shifting our anger or compassion.
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Don't say it can't be done. There were cycles of suicide contagion via media. CDC developed guidelines, media went along, dampened cycle.
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