The Media Fuels Violence And Mass Shootings, Not Guns, According To The Research

For years I’ve pointed out the research showing media sensationalism of violence leads to more violence, and specifically, their coverage of school/mass shootings leads to more of those incidents.

The research is undeniable, spans all stated ideologies, is from prestigious researchers, and has long-standing reduplicated results.

The media doesn’t want you to know this fact. They actively hide it and attack those who expose it by pretending to be ‘offended’ at such a gruesome claim. Fact is, newsrooms are energized by these tragedies. They exploit them, promote them, squeeze every last second of coverage out of them, and use the resulting traffic they get to sell more ads.

Tragedy sells. Yes, there are those with ideological interests in covering these stories a certain way, but at the end of the day, this is a business that needs money to survive.