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Post by CAPT Issac R. Madden on Jan 31, 2015 23:09:50 GMT 1
Came across this today: nonotoriety.com/In a nutshell, it's a campaign to stop mass media from glamorizing mass killers in their coverage of such events. I agree with the premise: the more you hype up the killer, the more psychopaths will want to emulate/try to surpass the guy in the news. Back in the old days, the Romans would literally erase all traces/records of a person's existence if they committed such atrocities. I don't want to say we should re-write our own history, but we should deny these attention-seekers their fame by saying "an unknown perpetrator committed vile acts against his fellow people and due to the nature of these acts, we will not speak his name" or some such.
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Post by Lily Ariel Linders on Feb 1, 2015 2:05:07 GMT 1
I agree, to a point. I think it would be difficult to keep the name completely secret, but I don't like all the mass media coverage of "Killer this" and "Psycho that" - and all the various coverage of whatever mental issues or defenses the killer is planning with his / her lawyers.
I do think any families of victims (and of course the victims themselves) deserve so much more respect than that.
And the constant photo coverage of the killer's faces / mugshots - especially if they could be considered good looking people objectively. That irks me. It leads to people saying random stupid shit like "Ohh, he's so gorgeous, how could he be a bad guy?" *facepalm*
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Post by jklinders on Feb 1, 2015 2:17:16 GMT 1
Another thing that annoys me is how selective the media can be about the details of trials and defenses. Frequently there will be some emphasis on an attempt at pleading insanity as if the legal test for it is actually easy(it's not) or some mention of light sentences being handed out but no details of the judges ruling that explains the sentence.
a lot of it seems to be driven by the "tough on crime" crowd. I'm all for getting bad guys off the streets, but certain elements of the tough on crime crowd seem to want to go back to the good old days of the rack and the various death devices that the Romans were fond of using. there is a fine line between justice and revenge and judges have sentencing guidelines for a reason. media outlets are a little quick to forget that in their drive to get outrage driven sales.
i'm all for minimizing coverage of the murderers and their manifestos of hatred or whatever. let's not show their faces. it's long past time we stopped giving these creeps the fame they are clearly craving. I'm not sayoing censor this shit. that's bad in itself but we don't need to see their faces everywhere.
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Post by Clint Johnston on Feb 1, 2015 5:40:02 GMT 1
These the same Romans I heard of that had literal murder games in the arenas?
As to this, it's a nice sentiment, but in order to accomplish it, you're going to have to collectively raise the national intelligence level, and reform all news media personnel to get them to shut their mouths.
Come to think of it, that might solve the shootings issue, too.
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Post by Cali on Feb 2, 2015 7:51:42 GMT 1
Oliver Stone (who is a massive jackass most of the time, but has his good moments) made his point quite clearly as far back as the mid 90's with the film Natural Born Killers: Don't glorify mass murderers and serial killers. It's a shameful, miserable affair.
Unfortunately. FUCKERS. STILL. DO IT.
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