How responsible--or complicit--is the media in publicizing violent acts which are invariably imitated?

@SW-User The alternative is not to blast it all day, every day. Enough. It's sad, but that cannot change the outcome. And I agree...not naming names is a good start, but within 3 minutes we know what the guy's favorite color is.

@SW-User that is exactly what the alternative is ... if you don't report anything, then you will be accused of a coverup, perhaps rightly so (see Fox not covering the 6 January hearing or reporting on Tucker Carlson's legal woes for what a coverup looks like)

I don't know how you consume news, but I don't encounter this problem, and I never read any headline that I don't want to read (ie, no one forces me to click a link and read a story)

Is it just inconvenient to sometimes know that bad things are happening in the world? Do people who label reporting as endless blasting just simply want to bury their heads in the sand and wish all the bad things away and carry on with their own life as if nothing bad is happening? Is that what this reaction really is? Feel free to substitute climate change or plastic pollution for mass shootings in this scenario of new details being inconveniently reported on a regular basis and everyday people not doing anything to address the actual problem (which is not the reporting).

@uncalled4

@JustNik best

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@spjennifer I agree. However when such incidents happen I think the focus should be on how the cops violated the suspects' constitutional rights.

Since cops are agents of the State they are responsible for observing and respecting the suspects' constitutional rights. Now it's a fact that some suspects are rotten people but the constitution still protects their rights and cops should be whacked upside their heads when they willfully violate those rights.

For instance, the Minnesota constitution says:

"Text of Section 5:
No Excessive Bail or Unusual Punishment
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel or unusual punishments inflicted."
https://ballotpedia.org/Article_I,_Minnesota_Constitution

I consider it cruel punishment for cops to sit on a person so that he can't breathe and their actions result in the person's death.

In the case of Floyd, his right to due process was willfully violated. He was willfully killed before he had the opportunity to defend himself in a court of law before a jury of his peers.

"Text of Section 7:
Due Process; Prosecutions; Double Jeopardy; Self-Incrimination; Bail; Habeas Corpus
No person shall be held to answer for a criminal offense without due process of law, and no person shall be put twice in jeopardy of punishment for the same offense, nor be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law. All persons before conviction shall be bailable by sufficient sureties, except for capital offenses when the proof is evident or the presumption great. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended unless the public safety requires it in case of rebellion or invasion."

Cops are always violation this constitutional right:

Text of Section 10:
Unreasonable Searches and Seizures Prohibited

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated; and no warrant shall issue but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched and the person or things to be seized."

It's unclear if the search of Floyd was reasonable but cops in places like NYC engaged in unreasonable searches all the time in violation of the New York constitution =
"Text of Section 12:
Security Against Unreasonable Searches, Seizures and Interceptions

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

The right of the people to be secure against unreasonable interception of telephone and telegraph communications shall not be violated, and ex parte orders or warrants shall issue only upon oath or affirmation that there is reasonable ground to believe that evidence of crime may be thus obtained, and identifying the particular means of communication, and particularly describing the person or persons whose communications are to be intercepted and the purpose thereof."
https://ballotpedia.org/Article_I,_New_York_Constitution

If you want to have some fun, count the constitutional rights tv cops routinely violate.

@Diotrephes While you seem to have a real bone to pick with the Police, i don't, I see them as a necessary evil and haven't seen that many big issues with my local Law Enforcement that seem for the most part to be respectful of citizen's rights. While it's easy to decry the bad ones, I'd be loathe to paint them all with the same brush...

@spjennifer Cops as a whole have moved away from the good ones depicted in old tv series like Dragnet, Adam-12, [b]and CHiPs.[/b]

@AwakeningConfession221122 You know who owns and manages the media don't you?

@Diotrephes Black Rock and Vanguard

@Diotrephes @AwakeningConfession221122 Here's a very long list published on a Jewish website =

Jews In The American Media https://www.simpletoremember.com/articles/a/jews-in-the-media-hollywood/

@Changeisgonnacome The problem as I see it is that we don't have a good mental health system in place. You know what I mean? I mean, I grew up watching horror movies, probably way too young to be doing so. And I play them violent video games. Just last night I was playing Cyberpunk 2077, which is set in a dystopian future apparently run by the Republican party. And I watch the news. Every one of these mass shootings, I've been keeping abreast of.

You know what I've never once had the urge to do? Go down to a gun show and find a loophole to get myself an AR-15 and start taking the lives of innocent children. That's because I have the ability to differentiate reality from entertainment.

I'm not trying to be insulting to the type of people who can't differentiate. What I'm saying is we need to help people like that. Did you know that before the invention of TV and movies, people blamed violent books for people committing violent crimes? Can you imagine? They wanted to ban books because some people went out and did what the books said. That's exactly the type of short-sighted mentality the people have who are calling for a ban on video games, or a ban on violent TV shows.

What we need in this society is someone explaining to children that what we see on tv, in movies, and in video games is just entertainment. And beyond that, we need more mental health specialists in our elementary schools to catch these young people at an early enough stage in their development that we can help them learn and repair any emerging mental conditions.

Unfortunately, that could take years, or even decades, and it wouldn't fix the existing mental illnesses in our young adults. And that's why it's such a complicated problem. Sure, the short-term solution is to increase gun restrictions until we can figure out who is sane enough to handle an assault rifle without getting the urge to mow down some children.

But we have to learn how to weed out people who are going to get that urge.

@hunkalove I didn't forget; that's covered in my post.

@GovanDUNNY I did see ABC news NOT mentioning one of these maniacs, and I'll give credit where it's due.

@uncalled4 Thats good and the way it should be

@CountScrofula I believe that all three have an effect, along with insufficient means of handling mental illness. These are perfect storms.

@WhisperingAngel I know I'm going to regret this. I always regret this. But I have to ask anyway, because you're begging the question. Who's they?

@LordShadowfire Easy there! 🙂

@LordShadowfire The media/reporter's.

@Heartlander You begin with a proven fact, under the mistaken impression that others will be more likely to believe the lie in your conclusion. I am certain there is a logical fallacy there somewhere.

@eMortal

They focus on the gun itself rather than the shooter.
Meanwhile they mostly ignore the far greater level violence in our big Democrat cities.
But, if it's a policeman the full weight of the misinformation industry arrives within a nanosecond.
They likewise ignore the 100,000+ who will die this year of drug OD.

The collusion between the Democrats and the misinformation industry isn't new. Go research why FDR was so slow in acknowledging the holocaust, and why the misinformation industry buried the stories in the back pages. Anti-semitism was very much alive in the US in the early 1940s, and it was politically advantageous to not make "the Jews" the reason for the war.

@DDonde If you look up my other post, where I accuse ABC of turning the news into softcore murder porn, you'll get more of my mindset.

@Diotrephes That's because you're rational and civilized. Not everyone can make that claim.

@uncalled4 so when do we ban video games and Marilyn Manson songs?

@SW-User Never.

@LordShadowfire Should be reported, could be done in a more respectful way, except a lot of these people are misanthropic to the core, and I think it shows.

@uncalled4 Yeah, you can tell these people are numb to the suffering they've been reporting for so long.

@Lilnonames People who do good usually don't have publicists, ha. And yet, it feels really good to do something for someone. That part ought to be pushed more.

@LordShadowfire I knew you’d twist it to make yourself sound sweet and innocent.. face palm

@CorvusBlackthorne but since you wanna pretend everyone’s dumb and a memory shorter than yours..

@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout You provided a screenshot of a video, and the headline states nothing about storming the White House. Say nothing if you are fully aware that you did this because you do not have any actual evidence.