{"id":29825,"date":"2018-05-19T00:37:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T00:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29825"},"modified":"2018-05-19T00:37:55","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T00:37:55","slug":"no-plans-to-id-the-latest-shooting-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29825","title":{"rendered":"No plans to ID the latest shooting suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>David Brooks is one of my favorite conservative columnists.<\/p>\n<p>He writes for the New York Times and is a regular weekly contributor to PBS&#8217;s &#8220;NewsHour&#8221; and can be heard on National Public Radio&#8217;s &#8220;All Things Considered&#8221; evening news broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>He said something today on NPR I want to endorse in a full-throated fashion. Brooks said in a discussion with E.J. Dionne, the Washington Post columnist, that he dislikes it when the media identify individuals suspected of mass shootings.<\/p>\n<p>I agree. <em>Wholeheartedly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thus, I won&#8217;t identify the young man arrested today after the Santa Fe High School massacre near Galveston. I didn&#8217;t ID the Sutherland Springs, Texas, shooter, or the Parkland, Fla., gunman, or the Las Vegas sniper, or the Orland, Fla., terrorist. And on and on &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Brooks&#8217;s rationale for asking that the media not ID these individuals is that he believes giving these individuals publicity emboldens future madmen from committing copy cat crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Bingo, Mr. Brooks!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in your corner.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I have posted the names of some of history&#8217;s more notorious assassins: Lee Harvey Oswald, Sirhan Sirhan, James Earl Ray. Of those three, only Sirhan is still living. I see these individuals in a bit of a different light than the mass murderers who commit the heinous crimes that have become all too common place in contemporary society.<\/p>\n<p>I accept fully David Brooks&#8217;s reason for seeking to refuse to give these <em>alleged<\/em> losers any more publicity than they deserve.<\/p>\n<p>Which is none. Zero. Zip.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Brooks is one of my favorite conservative columnists. He writes for the New York Times and is a regular weekly contributor to PBS&#8217;s &#8220;NewsHour&#8221; and can be heard on National Public Radio&#8217;s &#8220;All Things Considered&#8221; evening news broadcast. He said something today on NPR I want to endorse in a full-throated fashion. Brooks said &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29825\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No plans to ID the latest shooting suspect<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1272,7770,3341,3360,3532],"class_list":["post-29825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-david-brooks","tag-mass-shootings","tag-npr","tag-ny-times","tag-pbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29827,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29825\/revisions\/29827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}