Glorification | The Fact of My Ignorance

Apr 3 2009

Mass Murderers and Media Glorification

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Well its long been my position that the largest bias of the media is their bias towards the exciting, tantalizing, scandalous, lurid, and enraging. Nowhere is this more evident than in the way that the media treats the actions of murderers who commit mass shootings. I was reading an interesting article in MindHacks (an excellent psychology/neuroscience blog) the other day about this subject and with the immigration center shooting that happened in New York today, I thought this was an appropriate time to post something about it.

A very interesting video clip on this subject and a brief commentary can be found after the jump (which means after you click “continue reading” for my readers who are new to the blog culture) Continue reading

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1 comment | tags: BBC, Bias, Economics, Game Theory, Glorification, Invisible Hand, Mass Murder, Media, MindHacks, Prisoner's Dilemma, Sensationalism, Shooting | posted in Current Events, Philosophy, Political Principles, Politics

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