I appreciate your reponse, but this is exactly my point. Bullying, school shootings and such have become glorified. I'm not saying the press shouldn't report it and bring light to it, but there is such a thing as negative press on a legitimate topic. School shootings used to never happen. Now, anytime someone doesn't like how they are treated, a gun gets brought into the situation.
But there is a very fine line here. Most people never know the real truth about situations. And the press tends to want to "shock" the world and not do true investigative reporting. In time, you find our that many people claim "bullying" as another way of crying wolf. They use the phrase like yelling fire in a crowded room to get attention. In many cases, THEY were the bullies. Prime example, Richie fired off in the social media when Martin left the team. This board lit up with people taking Incog's side and piling on Martin.
They were misinformed. And believed the first version of the story. True bullies know how to manipulate stories and those around them. Heck, Richie was even given an INTERVIEW by one of those glorified acronyms you just listed. Talking about his rebirth and how he's changed as a human. It was a real tear jerking moment.
He manipulated that situation to give himself much needed PR and it's results were proven when this story broke. Most people jumped on his side. The skillful bully won, at first.
The media can be a good thing, but it can also be a bad thing. It can incite a mob as much as it can soothe one. It wasn't until some reporters actually INVESTIGATED the story to find out the truth that we see what really happened.
News agencies have a duty to report the truth and get down to the facts. But FEW really do. Believing everything reported is gospel is equivalent to saying everything posted on the internet is truth. To say all of those agencies always report the truth only makes the spreading of bad information by them easier to do.
One day, we'll learn it's not the victims who need to overcome bullying. it's the people who are witnessing it that need to overcome it. They are the ones who can make a real difference. Instead of waiting for someone else to do something or some news agency to tell them it's okay to act, one day people will realize that being a human and treating others fairly doesn't need an audience. It just needs people with a moral backbone to live by it and help their neighbor.
