Sympathetic #NoNotoriety has a downside: Our view

Forensic psychiatrist Park Dietz has argued since the 1980s that the problem is cable TV’s “saturation coverage” with its electronic images, color, bleeding bodies and screaming sirens. “Those are the emotionally arousing aspects” to someone “already alienated from society, blaming some group for his failures, depressed and suicidal who can gain access to weapons.” 

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