Picture: Moncton RCMP headquarters We are going to now direct our attention not to the shooter any more, but rather those affected by this tragedy. Ill be honest with you, sun news network in my opinion is always spewing out shock value garbage for ratings but I recently read an article that really allowed me to gain a bit more respect for them then I had in the past, I would like everyone to read this article it is well worth the read, and this is coming from someone who cant stand that network. sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/straighttalk/archives/2014/06/20140606-144104.html Can you see the pattern? The idea is that mass shootings are contagious. Back in 1999, four public health researchers published a famous study titled Media and Mass Homicides in the Archives of Suicide Research. They looked at a number of mass murders in Australia, New Zealand, and Britain and they discovered mass homicides occurred in clusters - not randomly. Now, with wall-to-wall media coverage of these events, are we feeding future monsters? Are we putting ideas in their heads? When we make the killers name and face famous, are we setting the stage for future mass killings? In the media, its a dilemma. We feel an obligation to tell the public what is going on. Our job is to inform. And like the old saying goes, if it bleeds, it leads. Networks care about ratings. But with every mass shooting, we face the inevitable cry of ANOTHER mass shooting?!? In the days and weeks to come, therell no doubt be a great deal of debate on how we stop the next Moncton. Mental illness, gun control, warning signs, will all come up. These are legitimate points of discussion. But for us in the press - and for society at large - lets take an honest look in the mirror to see if our hyper-interest might be contributing to this very disturbing phenomenon. We will not help give this killer his blaze of glory. So let us leave this Monster out of the news and focus on the real heros... To read about the lives of the RCMP Officers who have fallen please go to the link shown in the first reply to this message. If you would like to donate to help the families of the officers please go to the link in the second reply for further information. Its time we stop feeding this Monster...
Posted on: Sun, 08 Jun 2014 02:25:34 +0000
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