Mass Media's influence in political campaigning and other disgusting acts

[Yitzi]

Just google it it even made that trash rag the huffington post.
This has been known for years. They even finally started putting
warning labels on them.

http://www.sott.net/article/279716-Nearly-every-mass-shooting-in-the-last-20-years-shares-one-thing-in-common-and-it-isnt-weapons

Multiple credible scientific studies going back more then a decade, as well as internal documents from certain pharmaceutical companies that suppressed the information show that SSRI drugs ( Selective Serotonin Re-Uptake Inhibitors ) have well known, but unreported side effects, including but not limited to suicide and other violent behavior. One need only Google relevant key words or phrases to see for themselves. www.ssristories.com is one popular site that has documented over 4500 " Mainstream Media " reported cases from around the World of aberrant or violent behavior by those taking these powerful drugs...

...On to the list of mass shooters and the stark link to psychotropic drugs:

Eric Harris, age 17 (first on Zoloft then Luvox) and Dylan Klebold, aged 18 (Columbine school shooting in Littleton, Colorado), killed 12 students and 1 teacher, and wounded 23 others, before killing themselves. Klebold's medical records have never been made available to the public.

Jeff Weise, age 16, had been prescribed 60 mg/day of Prozac (three times the average starting dose for adults!) when he shot his grandfather, his grandfather's girlfriend and many fellow students at Red Lake, Minnesota. He then shot himself. 10 dead, 12 wounded.

Cory Baadsgaard, age 16, Wahluke (Washington state) High School, was on Paxil (which caused him to have hallucinations) when he took a rifle to his high school and held 23 classmates hostage. He has no memory of the event.

Chris Fetters, age 13, killed his favorite aunt while taking Prozac.

Christopher Pittman, age 12, murdered both his grandparents while taking Zoloft.

Mathew Miller, age 13, hanged himself in his bedroom closet after taking Zoloft for 6 days.

Kip Kinkel, age 15, (on Prozac and Ritalin) shot his parents while they slept then went to school and opened fire killing 2 classmates and injuring 22 shortly after beginning Prozac treatment.

Luke Woodham, age 16 (Prozac) killed his mother and then killed two students, wounding six others.

A boy in Pocatello, ID (Zoloft) in 1998 had a Zoloft-induced seizure that caused an armed stand off at his school.

Michael Carneal (Ritalin), age 14, opened fire on students at a high school prayer meeting in West Paducah, Kentucky. Three teenagers were killed, five others were wounded..

A young man in Huntsville, Alabama (Ritalin) went psychotic chopping up his parents with an ax and also killing one sibling and almost murdering another.

Andrew Golden, age 11, (Ritalin) and Mitchell Johnson, aged 14, (Ritalin) shot 15 people, killing four students, one teacher, and wounding 10 others.

TJ Solomon, age 15, (Ritalin) high school student in Conyers, Georgia opened fire on and wounded six of his class mates.

Rod Mathews, age 14, (Ritalin) beat a classmate to death with a bat.

James Wilson, age 19, (various psychiatric drugs) from Breenwood, South Carolina, took a .22 caliber revolver into an elementary school killing two young girls, and wounding seven other children and two teachers.

Elizabeth Bush, age 13, (Paxil) was responsible for a school shooting in Pennsylvania.

Jason Hoffman (Effexor and Celexa) - school shooting in El Cajon, California.

Jarred Viktor, age 15, (Paxil), after five days on Paxil he stabbed his grandmother 61 times.

The use of SSRIs have been promoted with the erroneous marketing mantra that serotonin is the happiness hormone. That simplistic narrative has many gullible people convinced that it most be good to take SSRIs and anything else the medical business tells them to take.

Yet a sizable volume of research studies demonstrated that increasing serotonin (and tryptophan) with drugs or supplements is linked to brain dysfunction, stress hormone release, cognitive deficits, inflammation, impaired blood circulation in the brain, hypertension, sexual dysfunction, cancer, and other less than "happy" effects - http://www.supplements-and-health.com/tryptophan-side-effects.html

Undoubtedly, the serotonin-happiness mantra seems to be almost entirely an all-too convenient highly lucrative invention of the medical-pharma business.

More likely, serotonin does play a pivotal role in happiness, and the oversimplification as "the happiness hormone" is the all-too convenient highly lucrative invention of the medical-pharma business (or, in particular, their marketing department).  Or maybe it just comes from where most oversimplifications come from, and the medical-pharma business capitalized on that.

[Rusty Edge]

As for the media, tonight NBC Nightly News reported the contents of the killer's car, you know, so that would be revenge killers have a checklist to work with.

They also shared an interview with the grieving father of the victim, just so everybody knows how effective the revenge was, or in case anybody missed yesterday's news.

[Dio]

As for the media, tonight NBC Nightly News reported the contents of the killer's car, you know, so that would be revenge killers have a checklist to work with.

They also shared an interview with the grieving father of the victim, just so everybody knows how effective the revenge was, or in case anybody missed yesterday's news.

The cynical nature of Rusty Edge's post have created metaphorical hands that are reaching out of the computer monitor to grasp me. *Gasp*

[Buster's Uncle]

Those poor people are still dead.  It's news.  Still dead passes for news.

Did you hear about Francisco Franco?

[Rusty Edge]

Here's an article on the subject, including the recent murder, and findings by the FBI and Arizona State with regard to copycats.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/opinion/the-virginia-shooter-wanted-fame-lets-not-give-it-to-him.html?referrer&_r=0

It also gives examples as to how CDC recommendations affected a suicide epidemic, and an NBC request to put a news blackout on kidnapping of a reporter, etc.

So not only is their linkage to reporting and copycats, but changing the way the story is reported can affect outcomes.

[Buster's Uncle]

Obviously the FBI is a bunch of liberals.

Hoover wept.

[vonbach]

Obviously the FBI is a bunch of mercenaries.

Hoover wept.

From what I've heard of Hoover for all his many faults he wouldn't have tolerated
the modern corrupt, politicized FBI for a heartbeat. He had an extensive blackmail
collection to keep politicians honest. The prize of his collection was supposedly a
lesbian sex tape of Eleanor Roosevelt  and the black woman from gone with the wind.

[Buster's Uncle]

...Because Hoover was AGAINST corruption in office...

[vonbach]

...Because Hoover was AGAINST corruption in office...

Pretty much. Hoover wouldn't have tolerated something like the Edgar J Steele
case for a second. Or the rampant corruption in the FBI today where they routinely
make up evidence.

[Buster's Uncle]

a lesbian sex tape of Eleanor Roosevelt  and the black woman from gone with the wind.

The Hattie McDaniel pr0n everyone always hoped to see.  What a guy, that J. Edgar.

[vonbach]

What a guy, that J. Edgar.

Lol From what I know he used to go to parties with his "partner"
in a cocktail dress with a feather boa and called himself "Mary."
He'd get the keys to his safe and show that tape to his guests.
But he believed in the system and wouldn't have tolerated the
things that go on in todays FBI for a second.

[Buster's Uncle]

Jorge Ramos tells Bill O’Reilly not to lecture him on journalism
Fusion
by AMERICA with Jorge Ramos and Tamara Weston  September 02, 2015 8:47 p.m. 


Since getting kicked out of Donald [Sleezebag]’s press conference and told to “Get out of my country” by a [Sleezebag] supporter last week, Fusion and Univision anchor Jorge Ramos has been the subject of headlines, to say the least. Some disagreed with his behavior, suggesting his questions were out of turn and even disrespectful to his fellow journalists; others wondered whether he was looking for a confrontation in Iowa.

But perhaps one of Ramos’ most outspoken critics was Fox’s Bill O’Reilly. The political commentator took to his own website to air his grievances with the journalist, calling him “an activist with a radical agenda,” accusing him of failing to disclose the fact that his daughter is working for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign (though he did in June, here), and even saying that Ramos has been “hiding under his escritorio” (Spanish for “desk”) following requests for an interview.

On Wednesday night, the host got what he wanted. Ramos appeared on The O’Reilly Factor to discuss why he disagrees with [Sleezebag]’s plan to build a wall, opposes Kate’s Law, and stands by his actions in Iowa.

“Tonight I just want to get the audience to get to know who you are, Jorge, you know?” O’Reilly started. “They may be horrified, but I think I have to do it.”

O’Reilly kicked things off by asking Ramos why he doesn’t want a border wall that would “stop people from infiltrating from Mexico into the United States.” The host mentioned that a wall could have prevented the death of 32-year-old Kate Steinle, who was recently killed in San Francisco by an undocumented immigrant who had been deported five times. He said this is why the country needs legislation like Kate’s Law.

Ramos disagreed: “I don’t think you are approaching the problem in a global way,” he said, while stressing that he’s not defending criminals.

“You are!” O’Reilly responded. “You’re an enabler. Jorge, you’re enabling guys like Sanchez,” referring to Steinle’s alleged killer.

“You have to concentrate on enforcement, background checks, and at the same time you have to resolve the situation of 11 million people in this country,” Ramos responded.

O’Reilly asked Ramos, “Do you believe that Mexican nationals—and you were one, you came to the United States on a student visa and then, I guess, you did everything, legally, and you’re here and you’re successful—do you believe that Mexican nationals, Guatemalan nationals, Honduran nationals, have a right to come to the United States?”

Ramos said he believes they have a right if done legally but that immigrants are coming to the U.S. because they are also needed here by American companies.

“You want to criminalize a whole community,” Ramos said. “And at the same time, we are also responsible. You think they are just coming because they want to go to Disneyland? Of course not. They are coming because they are doing the jobs nobody else wants to do; we are giving them jobs. That’s why they are coming.”

The Fox host then turned the discussion to Ramos’ career. “You’re an anchorman, how can you possibly cover illegal immigration fairly when you’re an activist, when you’re a proponent of allowing them amnesty?” O’Reilly continued, “You should excuse yourself from it, or recuse yourself from it, or become like me, a commentator.”

“Mr. O’Reilly, I don’t think you are the right person to lecture me on advocacy and journalism when you spend most of your program giving opinions and not asking questions, defending Republicans, criticizing Democrats, and, frankly, conducting interviews—soft interviews—with conservatives that you agree with,” Ramos responded. “The difference between you and me is that you are partisan, and I’m independent.”

Watch the O’Reilly Factor segment here:

'You're an Activist!': O'Reilly and Jorge Ramos Clash on Illegal Immigration

http://fusion.net/story/192701/jorge-ramos-tells-bill-oreilly-not-to-lecture-him-on-journalism/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=/feed/the-most-popular/


It's funny because Bill O'Reilly pretends to be a journalist for a living.  Glass houses...

[Buster's Uncle]

Conspiracy Theory Rock By Robert Smigel

It helps a lot getting the joke if you were watching any Saturday morning cartoons on ABC in 1978...  But the central point is no joke, of course.

[Rusty Edge]

So we had another shooting.

Yesterday, the local news where I am covered the Sheriff's press conference, as he explained that he would not speak the name of the perpetrator, so as not to glorify him or inspire copycats.

After the segment the local newslady says "His name was __________"
Needless to say, I was 

Then last night, my wife tells me I was right and reads me stuff from ______'s social media, praising the shooter I complained about last time, and a couple of other recent ones.

Of course, it's not just the news media, it's also the President. He seems to see political opportunity where I see tragedy, and where feces heads see national recognition from the POTUS.

Thanks Obama!

[Rusty Edge]

Here's a better way of covering the story, by CNN

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/02/us/oregon-school-shooting-hero/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

Oregon shooting hero tells gunman, 'It's my son's birthday today'
By Don Melvin, CNN
Updated 7:48 AM ET, Sat October 3, 2015 | Video Source: CNN


"
—When Chris Mintz heard gunfire at Oregon's Umpqua Community College on Thursday, his thoughts were not of himself.

Instead, he thought first of protecting others. Then he thought of his 6-year-old son, Tyrik.

Nine people were killed when a gunman opened fire at the College on Thursday. Nine others were injured.

When the shooting broke out, Mintz, 30, a military veteran and a former high school football player in Randleman, North Carolina, tried to save the lives of others.

"Tries to block the door to keep the gunman from coming in," his aunt, Wanda Mintz, told Fox 8, a CNN affiliate in High Point, North Carolina.

"Gets shot three times," his aunt said. "Hits the floor."

"Looks up at the gunman and says, 'It's my son's birthday today,' " his aunt said.

Still, there was no mercy. The gunman shot Mintz again. It's not yet clear exactly how many more times, but both his legs are broken, said family members who talked to him by phone on his way into surgery.

"He's going to have to learn to walk again," Ariana Earnhardt, his cousin, told Fox 8. "But he walked away with his life, and that's more than so many other people did."

There's more to the story. A line about people on social media asking for people to remember the Tar Heel hero Chris Mintz, not the gunman. More about Chris in the hospital, his military service, etc.