Source: FOX 'Do not speak his name', the Harvard-educated mathematician who retreated to a dingy shack in the Montana wilderness and ran a 17-year bombing campaign that killed three people and injured 23 others, died on Saturday. He was 81. Branded the “Unabomber” by the FBI, he died at the federal prison medical center in Butner, North Carolina, Kristie Breshears, a spokesperson for the federal Bureau of Prisons, told the Associated Press. He was found unresponsive in his cell early on Saturday morning and was pronounced dead around 8am, she said. A cause of death was not immediately known. . . . He did not invent mail bombs nor was the worst but he sure wasted his life and the lives of others. I'm taking a moment to remember those he killed: Hugh Scrutton - computer store owner Thomas J. Mosser - advertising executive Gilbert Brent Murray - timber industry lobbyist Bob Wilson
dead link The same treatment needs to be applied to all the other serial and mass killers too. Name and picture are newsworthy once at the start, and continuing if / while they may remain uncaptured. But after that, no more name or photo. Unfortunately, most U.S. news media continue to resist or ignore this public safety campaign. The Reasons | DontNameThem.org Sage Journals: Don’t Name Them, Don’t Show Them, But Report Everything Else: A Pragmatic Proposal for Denying Mass Killers the Attention They Seek and Deterring Future Offenders (full unpaywalled article here) The Journalist's Resource: “Don’t name them” – Criminologist asks journalists to help stop mass shootings "In our research, Eric Madfis and I have identified three major consequences of the media coverage. One, it creates a kind of competition for mass shooters to maximize the number of victims they kill. The second is that it’s rewarding these offenders with fame and attention, which is often what they want – it serves to give them a legacy. Even if they die, they may be remembered, according to their distorted views, as someone who mattered, as a somebody rather than a nobody. […] Apart from that, the media advertises the behavior. So regardless what kind of behavior it is, if you want to increase it, the best way is to advertise it. When it comes to mass shooters, that advertising produces what’s known as both contagion and copycat effects. Contagion essentially means that the ideas about committing this type of attack spread through society and permeate the minds of at-risk individuals. And copycat effects have been documented among many offenders who have specifically identified previous mass shooters as role models." NIH: Mass Shootings: The Role of the Media in Promoting Generalized Imitation "If the manner with which the media (legacy, new, social) report a mass shooting event plays a role in promoting further mass shootings, changing these reporting methods could decrease imitation. This tactic has been effective in decreasing imitated suicide,15 and the World Health Organization, citing 50 years of research on imitation, has posted media guidelines on reporting suicides to prevent imitational suicides.16 ... Similar suggestions have been provided for reporting mass shootings. For instance, the Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training team, in collaboration with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has developed the “Don’t Name Them” campaign." FBI: "The FBI also supports the Don’t Name Them campaign." NPR: Don't Say Their Name: Media Struggles With Reporting On Orlando Gunman "[FBI director] JAMES COMEY: You will notice that I am not using the killer's name. And I will try not to do that. Part of what motivates sick people to do this kind of thing is some twisted notion of fame or glory, and I don't want to be part of that for the sake of the victims and their families and so that other twisted minds don't think that this is a path to fame and recognition." 'No Notoriety' campaign to not name mass murderers sees progress https://nonotoriety.com/ A certain national news outlet, which I won't name right now because it refuses to join the "Don't Name Them" campaign, is suggesting that he died by his own hand.
