Don’t sensationalize shootings

Tue., Nov. 11, 2014

Thanks to Philip Mulligan (“Play down school shootings” – Nov. 4) and his ideas about the school shootings in the headlines. I agree with him wholeheartedly.

Our national and local media have realized long ago that sensationalizing teen suicides leads to copycats. Therefore, they do not report them anymore. Now the media need to realize that they are part of the message.

The Spokesman-Review’s editors should change their policy about sensationalizing school shootings. You become part of the problem by putting it out there for other disturbed children to copy.

Mary Naber

Spokane

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