I feel that one of the things that will help reduce these from happening is for the media to stop…
Naomi Hanson
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This was a very, very common dialogue in the hours and days after. The victims classmates were ENRAGED that they were not just glorifying him for his brilliance or whatever, but that they would use his picture as the story image. None of this was about him as a person, especially due to a lack of any known mental illness or warning sign (as we now know.) He was a bratty white kid in a rich neighborhood who was upset his ex didn’t want him back. That’s not a story. The story is the tragedy. For lack of a better image, they could have shown the high school, representing the real community affected. Or hell, even the McDonalds. Or the lighthouse, symbolizing the town. I could go on….