How American Media Fuels a Cycle of Violence

Absolutely. The media and moral decline are why this has turned into an epidemic.

I flipped to Real Time a few minutes ago and the NRA has already been blamed three times. Nothing is ever changing.

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Absolutely. The media and moral decline are why this has turned into an epidemic.

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This is all part of their plan for the destruction of America. Once they take our guns and Jesus, God help us.

Do not forget social media such as Facebook,Twitter, etc... for the proliferation of all these school shootings. Today, every kid wants to be somebody. If not you're a failure. The internet has unloaded unrealistic expectations on many of these kids that they know they can never live up to. When that happens, they lash out.

Everybody wants to be somebody somehow, Even if it's tragic.

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Do not forget social media such as Facebook,Twitter, etc... for the proliferation of all these school shootings. Today, every kid wants to be somebody. If not you're a failure. The internet has unloaded unrealistic expectations on many of these kids that they know they can never live up to. When that happens, they lash out.

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Yeah, but I don't see how you can possibly control that.

I've been saying this for years. We need to stop reporting these shootings in the mass media, and especially stop telling the shooters names and showing their pictures. These losers who can't get laid want their five minutes of fame. The media just relishes in these stories for their ratings, its sick.

The media continues to place opinions and drama in news reporting. For the most part true facts only journalism is dead.

David French goes over Gladwell’s school shooter explanation a bit here. It makes sense to me.

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But Granovetter thought it was a mistake to focus on the decision-making processes of each rioter in isolation. In his view, a riot was not a collection of individuals, each of whom arrived independently at the decision to break windows. A riot was a social process, in which people did things in reaction to and in combination with those around them. Social processes are driven by our thresholds—which he defined as the number of people who need to be doing some activity before we agree to join them. In the elegant theoretical model Granovetter proposed, riots were started by people with a threshold of zero—instigators willing to throw a rock through a window at the slightest provocation. Then comes the person who will throw a rock if someone else goes first. He has a threshold of one. Next in is the person with the threshold of two. His qualms are overcome when he sees the instigator and the instigator’s accomplice. Next to him is someone with a threshold of three, who would never break windows and loot stores unless there were three people right in front of him who were already doing that—and so on up to the hundredth person, a righteous upstanding citizen who nonetheless could set his beliefs aside and grab a camera from the broken window of the electronics store if everyonearound him was grabbing cameras from the electronics store.

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In the day of Eric Harris, we could try to console ourselves with the thought that there was nothing we could do, that no law or intervention or restrictions on guns could make a difference in the face of someone so evil. But the riot has now engulfed the boys who were once content to play with chemistry sets in the basement. The problem is not that there is an endless supply of deeply disturbed young men who are willing to contemplate horrific acts. It’s worse. It’s that young men no longer need to be deeply disturbed to contemplate horrific acts.

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I've been saying this for years. We need to stop reporting these shootings in the mass media, and especially stop telling the shooters names and showing their pictures. These losers who can't get laid want their five minutes of fame. The media just relishes in these stories for their ratings, its sick.

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This is laughable. Do you realize how impossible it will be to bury a story like this? There are kids with iPhones witnessing this happen.

It would be irresponsible NOT to report this. Sometimes the killers are on the loose. What are you gonna do then?

Think dude

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This is laughable. Do you realize how impossible it will be to bury a story like this? There are kids with iPhones witnessing this happen.

It would be irresponsible NOT to report this. Sometimes the killers are on the loose. What are you gonna do then?

Think dude

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That Vegas story disapeared pretty quickly didn't?