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The link between saturation media coverage of mass murder, spree killing, jihadi attacks and copycat crimes is well established. It must stop.
News-media organizations that persist in literally glorifying these villains beyond any reasonable news value are complicit in encouraging further crime. They know it.
That fact has been established by the medical and law-enforcement communities. Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership, along with a growing list of national co-sponsors is encouraging the journalism industry to cease and desist from repeatedly flashing the names and faces of mass murderers’ and jihadis’ in their reports.
Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership
JPFO’s “Don’t Inspire Evil” Initiative
2016 (probably, see also here)
It has been almost 10 years and still the media persists in continuing this dangerous activity. They should bear as much or more responsibility for mass shootings than all the gun owners in the entire country combined. If they think they can justify the Second Amendment being infringed because of mass shootings, then there is more than enough justification to infringe upon their First Amendment rights.
It is not that I think their rights really should be infringed. It is that proposing they be fined and/or jailed for exercising their First Amendment rights would, rightly, generate a great howling of protest. Then, claims of hypocrisy could be thrown at them.
This reminds me of Dean Ing’s novel “Soft Targets” in which a group of media/movie/TV people decide to start a campaign of mockery and ridicule against terrorists. For example, by drawing them as cartoon anarchist types holding ball-shaped bombs with the fuse lit, about to blow up in their faces. It was also strange in that it mentions an ultra-religious Jewish group that opposes the existence of Israel — Neturei Karta. That actually is real, amazingly enough.
F’em.
Let them blow all the bile and BS they want. Along with their master’s money.
The battle lines have been drawn and everyone who understands, understands their lies. And that they are liars. For their master is the father of lies.
Almost everyone gets their news from somewhere other than MSM. And those that do aren’t in the fight anyway. They’re just the 80% bystanders.
And go along to get along type folks.
One might ask yourself how many people that watch the “view” or “mourning joe”, are actually going to get up and do anything other than vote? Give them an AK and some extra mags to go fight with. You might as well be handing your lap-top to a chimpanzee.
And I’m sorry, but trying to get MSM and friends to see things your way is not going to happen this side of a liberal application of the clue-bat.
MSM is there to piss you off with an ignorant humiliation ritual.
Or make their fellow-traveler friends feel good about lying to themselves, with more lies.
What no one wants to talk about is that communism is coming to its over-reach point. And no one can stop it using the system we have in place.
So, F’em, let’em rot.
Media coverage is just one of a number of factors contributing the problem.
Probably the main problem is we no longer lock up crazy people. We medicate
them with drugs that make their insanity worse and allow them to wander the streets at will. And “gender dysphoria” is a form of insanity. ANYONE displaying symptoms of it needs to be locked away…for their safety and that of society.
I have read many proposals to suppress the names of the perps. While this might improve things if all we were talking about were generic whack jobs, it creates a problem when the motive is ideological or the pathology coming from an ideology. Oft times, the name is the only clue we have to unravel the blanket of media and official concealment. Does any one remember “workplace violence “?
I have yet to see a suggested solution for this that won’t cause other MAJOR problems, in terms of speech rights or other such things, MUCH bigger than the (admittedly horrible) problem that it seeks to solve.
If you have one, I’d love to see it.
“It is not that I think their rights really should be infringed. It is that proposing they be fined and/or jailed for exercising their First Amendment rights would, rightly, generate a great howling of protest. Then, claims of hypocrisy could be thrown at them.”
That’s been done. It does nothing – they feel no shame at all.
I think there would be a lot fewer imitators if mass murderers were only referred to by a year and a number. Why murder a bunch of people and kill yourself if all it would gain you would be a gravestone with a number on it and not your name.