Opinion: Mass murderers crave publicity. Maybe giving them less would be helpful.
A makeshift memorial near the Al Noor Mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, one of two mosques attacked Friday. By Megan McArdle Megan McArdle Columnist Bio Follow Columnist March 15 at 7:05 PM What makes a man walk into a house of worship and slaughter innocents under the eyes of God? We should perhaps be grateful that we’ll never really understand it; glad that the ordinary human mind cannot even imagine the urge toward such wanton brutality.
There is an answer to that question, but it is uncomfortable, and perhaps unworkable: Stop publicizing mass shootings. Many commentators, wondering why mass shootings became so common in the late 20th century, have pointed to various cultural and economic developments. They might better have pointed to cable news, which ensured that disaffected losers with hypertrophied egos and shriveled souls became the nonstop talk of the nation — in every nation, and most of the world’s 6,500 languages.
Media companies should decline to give their horrible crimes extensive coverage, and audiences should decline to consume it. Give their atrocities no more attention than a highway car wreck, and let their deeds disappear into two column inches on page A24 of the newspaper or, better yet, into the transcripts of an unremarked court trial.
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