Manhunt in Northumbria on BBC

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I'm just watching BBC News and they're showing live aerial video of armed officers checking out farm buildings.

If I was Raoul Moat and watching the news I'd be very pleased to see the police dispositions and prepare an ambush.

Surely there should be some kind of exclusion zone in place?
 
I thought that there was, it was what I read on Twitter, sucks really that our media wade in all the time. There was a media blackout last night up there due to the fact it would make things hard and now it seems it's all for one.
 
I was thinking it'd be an interesting tactic for the BBC to show a delayed feed of what the cops were doing in order to mislead Moat into thinking that they're in those positions, but in real time they would've moved.
 
Don't many psychologists say that this sort of attention the media are giving to this matter just encouragers more nutters? No source, just that I'm sure I heard something like this years ago.
 
naknakkus said:
I was thinking it'd be an interesting tactic for the BBC to show a delayed feed of what the cops were doing in order to mislead Moat into thinking that they're in those positions, but in real time they would've moved.
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That would happen any way to some degree, purely because of the time taken for the signal to leave the camera, be transmitted to London, then retransmitted Nationally, with whatever added delay for the BBC to mess around with it.
 
Kazz said:
Don't many psychologists say that this sort of attention the media are giving to this matter just encouragers more nutters? No source, just that I'm sure I heard something like this years ago.
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I don't think that argument makes any sense. Anyone who is mentally unstable enough to execute unarmed civilians will do so regardless of any external stimuli surely?
 
Yeah, there's the copycat effect, but the media are too focused on giving people what they want to care about that. Sky News etc would welcome more killing sprees and so on as it'd mean more revenue, never mind how the tabloids dish out human despair for their slavering consumers to mindlessly lap up. The BBC just have to keep up in order to provide their service.
 
Kazz said:
Don't many psychologists say that this sort of attention the media are giving to this matter just encouragers more nutters? No source, just that I'm sure I heard something like this years ago.
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Very true, not so much these cases but school shootings, every expert says the best thing is to play it down, don't make a fuss, don't run constant wall to wall news coverage of it. Keep it to those affected. But no, the news pick it up and run live coverage for days, then everybody is surprised when it happens again. Idiots.
 
Kazz said:
Don't many psychologists say that this sort of attention the media are giving to this matter just encouragers more nutters? No source, just that I'm sure I heard something like this years ago.
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Yeah, a psychologist was featured on segment of Newswipe discussing the damage that it does. He showed that everything that encourages copycats seems to be shown on or done by the news channels.
 
Media are money-mongers. Look at what a HUGE issue swine flu was. They're there to create fear and panic, because that sells papers.
 
***UPDATE***

Police have released this image of what they think Raoul Moat might look like today:

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Please don't kill me Raoul if you're reading this.
 
Sounds like a job for the special air service not the police...i think his number is up whatever...dont think they will take him alive.
 
Ohhh nooooo........... Could have done with this 2 weeks ago to write about in my psycology exam >. <

Copycat effect a bit. :/
 
bigredshark said:
Very true, not so much these cases but school shootings, every expert says the best thing is to play it down, don't make a fuss, don't run constant wall to wall news coverage of it. Keep it to those affected. But no, the news pick it up and run live coverage for days, then everybody is surprised when it happens again. Idiots.
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Erm yeah I'm sure people just commit mass murder because of the media and wouldn't do it otherwise.

I wouldn't be so quick to believe psychologist 'experts'.
 
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