Louisiana Shooting

So as you already know there has been a shooting in a movie theater Louisiana state in the US. This thread is not about gun laws or the number of mass shootings in the US. I am just perplexed at the style of reporting of these shootings. Why does the media feel the need to inform us the name of the movie that was being watched. This also happened in the Aurora shooting a few years ago. I don’t understand. Why does it matter what movie they were watching?
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They want us to believe that the movie had something to do with it

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I think it’s click baiting. When people who haven’t heard about the shooting go to the internet to search for info about the movie “Trainwreck”, they’ll instead get this news as part of the results.

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4 real what mind game is being played here? not only on CNN but all sites they’re very detailed about the film. The evolution of journalism i guess.

Journalistic integrity is out the window. Sensationalism is all that matters with today’s media.

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When scanty on details, runoffthe mill journalist look for gibberish to look detailed. Deflection. Now the movie gains more traction than the shooting.

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The reference to the movie is meant to give the story readers a scale of the people endangered by the shooting (it is assumed that the story audience already knows how popular or unpopular the movie is). It is like if a terror attack happened at Nyayo Stadium during a football match (and God forbid!) and the reporter tells us that it was during a Gor/AFC Leopards match which Kenyans know is popular- it is all about perspective…

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They want us to cringe and wince, cry and shake our heads in disbelief. The news have become a soap opera of some sorts and I think it’s a way of making the masses not question the causes and effects of sensitive events.

@POTUS leaves terror hotbed for peace and serenity in Kenya

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