Don't say his name.
The identities of those who died — Jonathan Blunk, Alexander Boik, Jesse Childress, Gordon Cowden, Jessica Ghawi , John Larimer, Matt McQuinn, Micayla Medek, Veronica Moser-Sullivan, Alex Sullivan, Alexander Teves and Rebecca Wingo — were. By then, everyone had already heard the name of the man who took their lives.
His name won't appear in this story — and the downplaying of media coverage that identifies the perpetrators of such horrific acts is among the most notable developments regarding such crimes, which have become all too common. After the Aurora theater shootings, a rising number of critics lambasted articles and television packages that focused on the killer, arguing that such pieces inevitably glorified a psychopath and could lead to copycats. At the time, I held a very different view. As a journalist, I'm devoted to reporting the facts, and there was no debate in my mind that the person who had caused so much pain to family members, the community of Aurora and many others was newsworthy.
As a result, I posted about a wide variety of items that transformed the tragedy into a phantasmagoria of the absurd: a
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