Charlie Brooker's Newswipe 25/03/09

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Recommends swang · 2012-07 · on “Accused Movie Killer James Holmes 'Refused to Program in an Object-Oriented Way'”

I want to share this video from Charlie Booker. [this video] Basically at the end the forensic psychiatrist says that giving this intense superficial coverage about the gunman only encourages more copycat killers. I don't know what compelled me to click the link even after watching the video and telling myself to stop following more coverage, but that may be all the more reason why it needs to stop. I honestly don't care what his intentions are, and I think the biggest punishment to him would be if everyone just forgot his name and he be left to pass the rest of his life in jail sitting in relative obscurity.

Recommends chestnut-tree · 2013-12 · on “News is bad for you”

I'm from the UK and I'd go so far as to say the majority of the British press are toxic. They have an incredibly inflated view of themselves and they couldn't care less about what's in the public interest (just look at how they've responded to the recommendations of the Leveson Inquiry which investigated the repulsive ethics and culture of the British press). The UK press empahtically follow their own self-interests and agendas (and that includes broadsheets like The Guardian). There will always be individual reporters who rise above the abysmally low standard of reporting - but they are a tiny minority. TV news is better in my opinion - they at least aspire to some measure of impartiality.

Recommends chx · 2023-06 · on “Charlie Brooker Got ChatGPT to Write a Black Mirror Episode”

Charlie Brooker is fantastic: On how news is reported [LINK] On how mass shooting is reported and about the saturation [this video]

Cites wlll · 2012-12 · on “Mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut”

Option 3. Prevent widespread news coverage: [this video] Though that seems about as likely as "1.Disarm everyone".

Cites losethos · 2013-04 · on “Razer will not cancel 90%-off test coupons”

In 9th grade when I moved to Goodyear, I was a year ahead in Math, so they put me one the 10-12 grade campus, taking all year ahead classes. I took Calculus my junior year. I did not have credit hours to graduate high school in 3 years, so I just exhausted free high school classes. I took short hand, accounting and electronic becausew I had already taken physics my junior year. Free courses. Then, I had a full scholarship to ASU -- all my tuition and a merit scholarship for having a 1440 SAT. I also had a Unidynamics scholarship. I gopt a master's in electrical engineering. We mocked psychology and business students. [LINK] Are we having fun yet? God says... 21:20 And Ahab said to Elijah, Ha

Cites ixwt · 2014-08 · on “Suicide Contagion and the Reporting of Suicide (1994)”

Most people don't. This seems to be quite prevalent in most societies. News media doing anything to get a story to grab viewers. Another example is school shootings: [this video]

Cites cuberator · 2015-10 · on “On the manifestos killers leave behind”

Very well written and interesting. While some people put the blame on firearms (lets not turn this into a debate on gun control) i believe that its the media attention that is the biggest culprit. [this video]

Cites Terr_ · 2015-12 · on “Show HN: Don't Name the Shooter”

> I get the "sexinesss" of denying the person the attention they wanted, but it doesn't help society. I think you have it totally backwards. If anything, it's "sexy" for news agencies to barf out everything they can know or speculate about the person. It lets them grab eyeballs, ratings, and fill airtime and pages. In contrast, removing the "notoriety payoff" is the sober , serious , and "wise" approach for society. There's a huge correlation between media-obsession after a shooting-tragedy and another attack occurring soon afterwards. [0] > We need to delve No, "we", the media-consuming audience, emphatically do NOT need to do any delving. 99.9% of us will never have expertise, and even if