Metropolitan Digital

The Times Real Estate


.

The media need to think twice about how they portray mass shooters

  • Written by Russell Frank, Associate Professor of Communications, Pennsylvania State University
The media need to think twice about how they portray mass shootersMedia portrayals of mass murderers may do more harm than good.Atstock Productions/Shutterstock.com

The lead story on The New York Times homepage provided the overview of the latest massacre at an American school: “17 Killed at Florida School; Toll May Climb.”

A “sidebar,” or secondary story, also on the homepage, bore this...

Read more: The media need to think twice about how they portray mass shooters

More Articles ...

  1. 10 ways schools, parents and communities can prevent school shootings now
  2. Here's how witnessing violence harms children’s mental health
  3. What the 5Pointz ruling means for street artists
  4. Outfitting the world's best athletes for the Winter Olympics
  5. Protecting every voter's ballot: 6 essential reads
  6. Why students at prestigious high schools still cheat on exams
  7. From FDR's food stamps to Trump's harvest boxes: The history of helping the poor get enough to eat
  8. Influenza: The search for a universal vaccine
  9. Writing's power to deceive
  10. Scaling back Obamacare will make the opioid crisis worse
Metropolitan republishes selected articles from The Conversation USA with permission

Visit The Conversation to see more