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It’s absolutely insane to me that people are criticizing the Japanese media over this. Why should we be amplifying a murder’s message? Don’t reward a man for sh
by shusaku 4y ago
It’s absolutely insane to me that people are criticizing the Japanese media over this. Why should we be amplifying a murder’s message? Don’t reward a man for shooting someone in the back.
After every mass shooting in the US I see widespread criticism of the media for sensationalism and turning mass murders into stars. Yet when another country follows this very advice, they’re criticized for a lack of free speech?
- pmoriarty 4y agoKnowledge and transparency is oxygen to a democracy. Without an informed populace you can not have an effective democracy.
- Caboose8685 4y agoI agree with the theme of your message, but people won't be educated unless they seek it out themselves beyond just what the media spouts. That is all too sadly very rare.
- peoplefromibiza 4y ago> Knowledge and transparency is oxygen to a democracy Democracy can wait a week or two when a man is murdered that way Freedom means also that you have to earn it, if people can't wait to speculate online about things that are still being investigated, they probably don't deserve it. --- What if they waited a bit more before putting Lee Harvey Oswald on the front page of every newspaper? Maybe he would still be alive and we knew a lot more about what really happened. What if Kennedy assassination happened today, with social media and the "pornography of violence"? Think about it.
- yucky 4y ago>Freedom means also that you have to earn it Freedom isn't earned, authority is. Freedom is the default nature of man. Those in power who seek to limit freedom, must earn that right. And it can be quickly withdrawn.
- peoplefromibiza 4y ago> Freedom is the default nature of man There's nothing natural in modern society. The only natural freedom is the freedom to survive.
- mrguyorama 4y agoThe lion cared not for our "freedom to survive", indeed I doubt the lions cared about property rights or the 2nd amendment either. Freedoms, even when they are freedoms FROM a state entity, only exist because society came together, usually in the form of a state entity, to set norms and expectations and promises.
- yucky 4y agoThis sounds like an argument that could be used to justify slavery.
- trashtester 4y ago> Freedom is the default nature of man In actual Nature, there is absolutely no default state of freedom. The default is to eat or get eaten. "Freedom" is a social construct. Just _maybe_ there is some biological underpinning in the form of tit-for-tat based sets of defensive-oriented instincts. (If you don't hurt me, I'll not hurt you.)
- oneoff786 4y agoThe motives of a crazy person are far less important than a long list of important policy nuances though. Why give this one precedence in air time.
- JKCalhoun 4y agoI would never criticize the media for indicating who did the killing, the weapon and how it was obtained, or the "mind set" (to the degree that is possible) of the killer. All of these things inform the populace. (And besides, does anyone think you could successfully suppress those?) But of course I am not the "widespread criticism" you refer to. It would be useful to point to the actual hypocrisy of a specific source/person — where this source/person was critical of the U.S. media amplifying a murderer's message but critical of Japan's refusal to do so.
- fomine3 4y agoThis. Usually calm people in Japan rage now about that news is slow. People should be calm even in this situation.