Is the media to blame for mass shootings as the NRA would have
you believe? Via Mediaite:  Park Dietz, a forensic psychologist,
believes that to fix that trend two major steps must be taken: a
return to the “emotional tone” of reporting on these events and
a reduction or elimination of biographical and identifying
information about the shooter. Dietz believes the media culture
now helps “incentivize those rare individuals who might be
prepared to act similarly.” According to Dietz,”No amount of
fulfillment of morbid curiosity is worth more lives.”  Kelly
believes along with the cries for increased gun legislation in
America, “there are also angry calls for a new journalism.”
People were angered by images of reporters in Connecticut
interviewing terrified children and are “calling for an end to
news as spectacle.”  Read the full piece at Salon, here.  I'm of
a mixed mind about the idea of interviewing children. On one
hand, they should be protected. But they were also witnesses and
their parents were asked for