Copycats and escalation via exposure is real. ISIS & wannabes are *obsessed* with media spectacle. Stop going along. https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/opinion/the-virginia-shooter-wanted-fame-lets-not-give-it-to-him.html …pic.twitter.com/k2hA72JIt2
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Opportunity cost as well. No footage of response wider Manchester cmmty
This is the daily mail right now...its disgusting. ISIS could wish for nothing more.pic.twitter.com/iFYrOTNqhs
They're loving this - they want exactly the same outcome as the terrorists
agree, MSM loves chaos, it fills a time slot with no thought of what it does to families who are watching...stop sensationalising terror
At this point it has a lot of hallmarks of an uncontrollable addiction. They can't stop themselves from covering it this way.
for the terrorists THAT is the upside. Media coverage
Did we pass some kind of watershed a few yrs back w/ commodification of news?Yellow journalism not new,but new dynamics arguably are
We don't have to let killers become posthumous shadow producers of our media coverage. I wrote it here at length:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/zeyneptufekci/dont-let-isis-shape-the-news …pic.twitter.com/VJpV8se0RK
hope Chris Hayes, Rachel Maddow et. al. are reading this
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