RE: Reporter/camera man murdered.
August 27, 2015 at 6:54 am
(This post was last modified: August 27, 2015 at 7:01 am by Napoléon.)
(August 27, 2015 at 6:45 am)abaris Wrote: I care when I'm confronted with the victims, with their unfinished lives and what they have left behind. That hardly happens in these shootings. The media focusses on the shooter and the victims become numbers. It's hard to identify with numbers or to care about numbers.
More recently this happened with the black church massacre and I'm even hard pressed to remember the town where it happened. You got to know next to nothing about the people being killed. Focus on the shooter, his background and his picture with the racist stickers all over his clothing and his car.
This.
What sickens me the most is the glorification that comes after the shooting. I woke up this morning to news reports about how this "Vester" character posted his deeds on social media, and Sky News were pouring over it, going on about his motives and his life story. His name comes to mind faster than the victims. They even put on special programmes about who the killer was. I'd much rather they did such programmes for the victims.
They do this with all major killings. After the Tunisia attack all they spoke about was who the gunman was. After the Boston bombings they literally put the killer on the front of Rolling Stone.
Fuck the media. They share a lot of responsibility for atrocities like this.
