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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.