"Just think tho," wrote the 19-year-old Omaha shooter in his suicide note. "I'm gonna be (expletive) famous." And he was, at least for a while.
This is something I was wondering about, after seeing all the media buzz that accompanied the recent mall shooting in Omaha: the killer had wished that, through his rampage, he would become famous, and guess what? Thanks to all the media coverage, he did indeed become famous.
This excellent article discusses what CNN, CityTV, and FOX News would fear to imagine: where news doesn't have to be sensationalised or personalised: but sensical and sensitive.
The whole concept can be best summed up by its quote from columnist Michael Mayo, who refused to mention the killer's name:
"I want to deny him what he wanted, the way he denied life to eight innocent victims."
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