Another wacko shooting...

[HungryBologna]

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The media is a bigger influence than most people think.

[Shauk25]

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So if i was still in hs, and i had a test or somethin i didnt study for or assignment due, i could write a little note and they cancel all of school.

Wow the power

[Brandwin]

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The media is a bigger influence than most people think.

Maybe, maybe not...

but when things like what happened at Virgina Tech occur, should they just not comment on it at all? Nuts are nuts no matter what.

Just like showing shows about serial killers etc...how come no out cry about that. People have been killing since time and will continue too. I don't think showing video footage of a crazed man is going to sway the matter much.

[triplej96]

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Maybe, maybe not...

but when things like what happened at Virgina Tech occur, should they just not comment on it at all? Nuts are nuts no matter what.

Just like showing shows about serial killers etc...how come no out cry about that. People have been killing since time and will continue too. I don't think showing video footage of a crazed man is going to sway the matter much.

It's not a maybe, maybe not, media is a huge influence. Not to mention the "news" isn't really the news its more like the "anything that = ratings".

[Brandwin]

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So how should they handle sitations like what happend at Virgina Tech? Not mention it all, make a quick note about and act like it didn't happen.

It might give idiots more ideas or different ways to handle it...

[HungryBologna]

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There is a difference between reporting and over reporting. Most of these news channels are doing it for ratings and that's when people get upset.

[Brandwin]

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Like TJ said in the V-Tech thread....

Does that serve as a motivational factor for some of these psychopaths? Sure. But I think if you have it in you to do something like this, you're going to do it whether you see a movie or not.

They are going to act this way, rather they see it in the media or not. What about all the crazies way back when?

[Brandwin]

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There is a difference between reporting and over reporting.

So..if I'm sitting there and watching the news and I see the report that this is the worse mass killing in American history...doesn't matter to me if I see it once or twenty times, I already know. I haven't watched the news once since this happened. I heard about it on the radio the day of it and what was said a few days after.

As for ratings, yeah that's bad...but it's been like that since I can remember. I don't think it has that much of a impact on some HS student who is thinking about shooting up the school or who has been picked on his whole life. One time is enough...If I hang out with someone who gets drunk and they end up being the biggest *** I've ever seen...I don't need to see it over and over to know, hey that's how they act when their drunk.

[MizzouBravesFan]

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If you think the coverage of the VT massacre or the killer himself hasn't already had an influence, you're kidding yourself.

Why is it that suddenly we're getting all these bomb threats and school threats??? Hmmm, it's not a coincedence.

[triplej96]

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Like TJ said in the V-Tech thread....



They are going to act this way, rather they see it in the media or not. What about all the crazies way back when?

Yes but for some crazies all the media coerage could be that extra push they needed to actually commit such an insane crime.

[HungryBologna]

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I didn't say this was the sole reason as to why this happened but what do you think about all the threats and what not the days following the shooting?

[Brandwin]

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Yes but for some crazies all the media coerage could be that extra push they needed to actually commit such an insane crime.

Good point, it could be the extra little push they need. But I don't think the media should be blamed for all of it.

I mean, most people our age get a lot of information from websites. If they want info, their going to find it.

[triplej96]

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So how should they handle sitations like what happend at Virgina Tech? Not mention it all, make a quick note about and act like it didn't happen.

It might give idiots more ideas or different ways to handle it...

Just don't dwell on it quite a simple concept really but from a ratings stand point that wouldn't make sense for the "news". See Anna Nichole Smith as over reporting lol that lasted forever why you may ask? Becasue of ratings. Just as someone else stated there is a difference between reporting and over reporting.

[triplej96]

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Good point, it could be the extra little push they need. But I don't think the media should be blamed for all of it.

I mean, most people our age get a lot of information from websites. If they want info, their going to find it.

I hear ya for sure but in many ways the internet if a form of media as well.

[rubisco43]

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don't know if it was posted, but the police on the news says the suspect shot himself once in the head. reported dead.