Tom Teves: A call to end the media coverage mass shooters want
On July 20, 2012, a mass shooting in a movie theater of Aurora, Colorado left the town, and its nation, reeling. To many -- including Tom Teves, who lost his son in the tragedy -- the news coverage that followed focused on all the wrong things. Why did the reporting overwhelmingly fixate on the shooter rather than the lives of the victims or the...
Tom Teves: Mass shooters want to be famous - you're helping them | Tom Teves | TEDxMileHigh
On July 12, 2012, Tom Teves received a phone call that would change his life forever: his son Alex had been killed in a mass shooting at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, while protecting his girlfriend. In the days that followed, the media posted the name and mug shot of the shooter seemingly everywhere. In this powerful talk, Tom explains w...