Thank you for your feedback! I also agree that mainstream media often wants to be "the first to report" for ANY price, publishing wild assumptions that haven't been proven yet, just because they want more attention!
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It's an unfortunate fact that our media is a business. I would not be surprised to hear that in the future a news source will intentionally cause crime in areas only to have a certain company be able to hit the scene first. The only real way to shift the focus back on more positive things is to not click on certain stories as much. The media is definitely not stupid . They just follow the highest dollar posts.
It's a free country, but do people think that interviewing the mother, brother, sister, best friend.... and going into detail about how exactly the crime was committed and "getting into the mind of a killer" etc. is really what will prevent future problems? I understand news should cover a story, but what they often do is exploitative and immortalizes the perpetrator in a way that they probably wished for.
I don't know what the answer really is, but I know I don't often trust our media or find that they are always doing a great service to the people.