Minggu, 22 Juli 2012

Park Dietz on how NOT to cover a mass murder

I ran into this 2009 piece on New Statesman by Helen Lewis that links to footage of forensic healthy, Park Dietz, describing best practices for how news media should NOT cover a mass murder.
  • If you don't want to propagate more mass murders...
  • Don't start the story with sirens blaring.
  • Don't have photographs of the killer.
  • Don't make this 24/7 coverage.
  • Do everything you can not to make the body count the lead story.
  • Not to make the killer some kind of anti-hero.
  • Do localise this story to the affected community and as boring as possible in every other market. 

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