&gt; I get the &quot;sexinesss&quot; of denying the person the attention they wanted, but it doesn&#x27;t help society.<p>I think you have it totally backwards. If anything, it&#x27;s &quot;sexy&quot; for news agencies to barf out everything they can know or speculate about the person. It lets them grab eyeballs, ratings, and fill airtime and pages.<p>In contrast, removing the &quot;notoriety payoff&quot; is the <i>sober</i>, <i>serious</i>, and &quot;wise&quot; approach for society. There&#x27;s a huge correlation between media-obsession after a shooting-tragedy and <i>another</i> attack occurring soon afterwards. [0]<p>&gt; We need to delve<p>No, &quot;we&quot;, the media-consuming audience, emphatically do <i>NOT</i> need to do any delving. 99.9% of us will never have expertise, and even if we did would be unable to act upon it.<p>The people who <i>do</i> (sociologists, psychologists, etc.) are going to be able to get at the data anyway, they don&#x27;t need to get their primary research from the 24-hour flashing-klaxon news-blast.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=PezlFNTGWv4&amp;t=1m39s" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=PezlFNTGWv4&amp;t=1m39s</a>