Newswipe: News Coverage and Copycat School Shootings
No Unicorns · Commentary · 3 min · 2009 · YouTube title: Charlie Brooker's Newswipe 25/03/09
Why it's here
HN cites it in discussions about how media should report mass shootings, as an expert-backed argument for not glorifying perpetrators.
What it covers
A clip from Charlie Brooker's Newswipe in which a forensic psychiatrist argues that intense news coverage of school shooters encourages copycat attacks, alongside Brooker's satire of formulaic news reporting.