zhi yang: introduction

Have you been aware of the fact that when a mass killing is brought to the conversation, you actually only remember the names of the ruthless killers other than that of the victim? Isn’t it weird that you have vivid images of the murderers but fail to recall those of the victims? As supposed, our moral won’t allow such villains store in our mind for such a long time. They appear to be erased by the passage of the time. However, that doesn’t apply to the reality. In the real world, we seem to be stuck by all the stuff associated with the killers. Never mind the victims; they tend to be forgotten in our memory. What on earth is happening to our mind? Are we brain-washed or something like that? Let’s not rush to find the answers. Just have a second to think about how these horrible accidents come to our mind in the first place. Yes, it is the newspaper. Newspaper plays a prominent role in our daily life. It strongly affect the way how we view this world. Yet the point is that of the newspaper’s excessive coverage of the killers. The newspaper tends to cover much more about the killers than the victim and his family. In other words, the newspaper pays primary attention to the killers other than the victim. That can be partially understood as to satisfy reader’s curiosity. Moreover, newspaper appears to escape their responsibility to report those victims who need help and support, which can be resulted from their difficulty to find the victim or victim’s refusal to cooperate with them. The excessive report of the killers can have an adverse effect on the teenagers. The teenagers might consider it’s a cool thing to kill people. They can get famous by slaughtering people. In addition, the insufficient report of the victim does not raise the social mood to have sympathy for the victim or to awake general’s conscious to blame the killers.