This is not about &quot;the innate capacity of man&quot; or any such romantic business. It&#x27;s about:<p>1. Of the entire audience being catered-to, almost none of them will have the inclination&#x2F;money&#x2F;time to become meaningful experts in violent mass-shootings.<p>2. The kind of information crafted by the mass-media is too low-quality to assist anybody towards that goal anyway.<p>3. People who are interested or competent in the field will instead acquire their data through entirely different mechanisms anyway.<p>4. The mass-media coverage is actually <i>counter-productive</i> to the goal of competence. In the search for filler, it is increasingly likely to host terrible &quot;experts&quot; or to portray news-anchors as experts. Among viewers, it creates &quot;armchair experts&quot; after 5 minutes, instilling them with a <i>false sense</i> of competence.<p>5. Finally, the popular style of mass-media coverage harms society in general, through encouraging additional unstable individuals to act.