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[-] polonius-rex@kbin.run 266 points 8 months ago

the media:

we'll stop naming school shooters due to copycat killers

also the media:

his name was thomas matthew and here's a 90 minute special about his preferred breakfast cereal

👀 👀 👀

[-] David_Eight@lemmy.world 104 points 8 months ago

If this encourages these psychos to stop shooting children and shoot politicians instead, I'll take that trade.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 23 points 8 months ago

I'll say the name of anyone that takes a shot at a fascist, for any reason. Even being the wrong kind of fascist.

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

I've always said we need a Walter Audisio day as a national holiday.

[-] m4xie 1 points 8 months ago

Like the guy who liked Hitler.

[-] Grass@sh.itjust.works 6 points 8 months ago

you know what, fuck yeah. People can only afford so many bullets these days, so just like Halloween warnings avout drugs and the reality of who the fuck would waste their hard earned drug money on random kids, why should anyone waste bullet money on them either. shoot a politician, save a child.

[-] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 93 points 8 months ago

Did the media ever really say they'd stop naming school shooters??

[-] atx_aquarian@lemmy.world 84 points 8 months ago

Also, I'm told this wasn't a school shooting.

[-] KingOfSleep@lemmy.ca 51 points 8 months ago

The media is not one thing. Media is plural. Good luck getting "the media" to agree on anything.

[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 38 points 8 months ago

They sure can agree on a few things:

  • Ads make money.
  • More ads make more money.
  • Money.
  • More money.
  • 🦀 money money money 🦀
[-] JayleneSlide@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

But are they concerned with making money? 😁

[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

If they're privately held, yes.
If they're publicly traded, yes.
If they're publicly funded, also yes, but only because they wouldn't exist otherwise.

Even if they don't say it, it's always a priority :)

[-] crawancon@lemm.ee 9 points 8 months ago

I vaguely remember a pinky swear.

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

For like 2 weeks and they went back to it

[-] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Wish.com Lee Harvey Oswald didn't shoot up a school though

[-] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I guess they made the call that releasing this information is the lesser of two evils, the other one being to withhold it and to let speculation run wild in a heated political climate, in which one side is not shy about threats of violence.

[-] drdiddlybadger@pawb.social 14 points 8 months ago

Who ever kills Trump will get an entire movie about them.

[-] Annoyed_Crabby@monyet.cc 5 points 8 months ago

Noticed this too. They just plaster his face and have analysis and stories all over youtube and news. I thought US are already over this yet here we are.

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah, wouldn't that be a crying shame, this time.

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