Media, activists divided on what details to report in school shootings

Published October 8, 2015 This content is archived.

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An article on Huffington Post about growing calls from some victims’ groups, psychiatrists and law enforcement officials for the media to avoid using the name of shooters and other personal information about them after a mass killing in order to avoid inspiring copycats quotes Steven Dubovsky, professor and chair of psychiatry. “They’re doing this to get themselves in front of the public eye and it doesn’t matter whether it’s positive or negative,” he said. “It desensitizes everybody to violence and mayhem.”

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