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how do we get the media to change their approach?

https://hwfo.substack.com/p/i-just-made-100-off-some-dead-ki...

Dunno. But that’s a good read.

I am not sure they should. It is something people want to know about. It is their duty to report about important to know events in the real world, and the fact that there exist scumbags that are willing to murder random people is definitely an important fact that we all need to be aware of.

On the other hand, the media compulsively portrays the sensationalist as commonplace and the commonplace as rare. They are presenting an increasingly skewed version of reality.

And yet they have specific policies[1][2][3], industry-wide and largely self adopted, for suicide coverage.

How is this any different? Many of these individuals straight send out manifestos. And the media contorts statistics, which happen to not only include suicides but suicides are the majority of the statistics, to support a specific narrative violence is more prevalent and commonplace than it is..

[1]https://time.com/5351106/media-suicide-coverage/

[2]https://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=117288&page=1

[3]https://www.cpa-apc.org/wp-content/uploads/Media-Guidelines-...

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