Yesterday, a Virginia Beach city employee killed 12 people at his workplace. I've seen no pictures of him, I looked at several sources and it seems he's ignored for the most part.
> Personally I want to know about the murderer. I don't want this hidden from the public.
I want to understand what the murderer's motivation was, to the extent that we can. On the other hand, I'd be happy to know that without knowing their name. I don't know if that's practical, but keeping the name out of most news reporting might measurably reduce the murderer's notoriety. I don't know if that would reduce mass shootings in the future, but it seems unlikely that it would hurt.
I've noticed a shift in coverage over the last year or so as well, I suspect all the news organizations finally got their act together about how to cover these stories without causing more damage.
After John Lennon was murdered it became less common for media outlets to publicize the identities of murderers beyond maybe a name and a mugshot.
With the more recent shootings there has been a bit of a revival of going into the profiles of the murderers (mostly, it seems, on cable tv) but that is a bit of a departure of the norm.
CNN is running pics of the victims https://imgur.com/a/U6A5oCb
Personally I want to know about the murderer. I don't want this hidden from the public.