Time for that sad reminder. After Robin Williams' suicide, sensational media coverage that violated the CDC guidelines resulted in a 10 PERCENT increase in suicides. Same effect applies to mass shootings. Newsrooms, please be considerate in your coverage.https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/opinion/the-virginia-shooter-wanted-fame-lets-not-give-it-to-him.html …
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Also, as people continue to focus on NRA's political contributions, please read and consider this excellent op-ed by
@hahriehan. What the NRA has more than gun control advocates isn't money, it's also an organized, active base and strategic leadership. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/04/opinion/gun-control-nra-vegas.html …pic.twitter.com/iAE2H1lEWg
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This isn’t reasonable or okay. Don’t put snuff films in loop while censoring an essentially mundane swear word.https://twitter.com/proflafferty/status/963947060780204033 …
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If you’re wondering about media effects. Media did not follow CDC guidelines on suicide reporting for Robin Williams case, sensationalized the story, and that resulted in a 10% increase in suicide in period right after. My desperate tweet from then.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/498971557675663360 …
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There was a 32% increase in suicides by the same method after Williams’ death—in violation of CDC guidelines, method details were widely publicized. It’s fairly clear similar effect applies to mass shootings. Sensationalization, diagrams, weapon porn, cowering people on loop...
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The story should evolve. Sensory input should be updated as more information becomes available. Information becomes available more quickly. The learning process happens in a distributed fashion. Everybody gets great information and derives potential solutions.
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@nytimes seems to have gotten out of the "responsible journalism biz" quite some time ago. Early in 2016 if not before.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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As always at these times... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PezlFNTGWv4 …
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there once was a very strong taboo in this country against snuff films
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