Our community is being rocked by the tragedy of Rio Allred. Rio is a 12-year-old girl who took her own life after she was relentlessly bullied after she came down with alopecia and began losing her hair.
Elkhart Community Schools knew about the bullying and did nothing to intervene on Rio’s behalf, that we are aware of.
Marla Godette is a mental health professional who was at Rio’s candlelight vigil. She offers advice to parents who might have the same thing happening to their child at school. Advice that most parents don’t know and most schools don’t want you to know.
To learn more about Rio and the light she brought into the world, please go here:
For years I’ve pointed outthe research showing media sensationalism of violence leads to more violence, and specifically, their coverage of school/massshootings 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.