https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2012/12/30/do-media-vultures-perpetuate-mass-shootings/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 10:24:59 -0400<![CDATA[“I’d like to see the emotional tone stick as closely to the tragic as possible, and to avoid emotional arousal of a kind that’s stimulating,” Dietz says. For Dietz, emotional arousal means sounds of sirens, images of ambulances, flashing lights, aerial shots of first responders and fleeing kids, quick edits and bodycount supremacy — things that excite and upset, psychologically and physically. “The second thing I’d like to see done is to reduce or eliminate identifiers of the shooters outside of the affected area and to reduce biographical information about the shooter. No amount of fulfillment of morbid curiosity is worth more lives.”]]>Sun, 30 Dec 2012 20:20:28 -0500<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2012/12/30/do-media-vultures-perpetuate-mass-shootings-n98721