Girl lights candle at memorial outside Sandy Hook Elementary school. (Photo: Eric Thayer/Reuters)
Tragedies on the scale of the shootings in Newton, Connecticut are covered in very distinct ways by media in societies around the world.
Zeynep Tufekci of Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy joins us from Istanbul, Turkey to talk about what steps journalists and others might take to ensure that coverage of Newtown does not inspire similar killings.
Frenzied media coverage of mass killings turns them into a spectacle & inspires copycats. This needs to change: theatlantic.com/national/archi…
— Zeynep Tufekci (@techsoc) December 20, 2012
Gun control & mental health are important issues for mass killings but attention seeking is part of the story. Need to discuss coverage.
— Zeynep Tufekci (@techsoc) December 20, 2012
I’m not suggesting censorship or blocking the story. Not at all. But we could change the tenor. We did for teen suicides.
— Zeynep Tufekci (@techsoc) December 20, 2012
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