Disrupting the Infamy Game: How to Change the Coverage of Mass Shootings

Given that intense media coverage of mass killings (a) plays straight into the perpetrators’ tendency to want recognition for their crimes, and (b) encourages copycat iterations, can major media outlets police themselves not to play into these dynamics?

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   Not sure, but I believe this is as likely to happen as the NRA policing itself.

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    The problem with trying to adopt of “code of coverage” for this kind of thing is that, no matter how well-intentioned...

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    I feel like this comes up every time there is a mass shooting, and nothing has changed.

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