Multiple people stabbed on a train in Cambridgeshire, England

[MalevolentTwitch]

I really wish we would stop making this about the weapons being used vs the availability / banning of potential weapons. There's just no such thing as gun violence, or car violence, or knife violence, etc. There is only violence...

I agree with you, but the media can pull a lot more content for their occupation if the acts of violence
are individualised. Not only that, certain penalties from particular law-breaking back-up their need to
refrain from stepping outside of their usual narrative-forming habit.

Take for example the current requirement of stating or not stating the ethnic or religious identity of a suspect.
Does it categorically give the reason why the offence took place or would it leave a viewer/reader to form an
ambiguous opinion? Would such assumptions lead onto speculation and with it, the possibility of stirring
emotions that could lead to further problems?

This isn't reporting in the true sense, anymore, it's a type of low-grade Journalism that whisks the pot
for further content that might be needed as filler to maintain a false excitement around an incident and
hopefully preserve ratings.

A 'Mass Stabbing' will catch the customers' eye more than reporting a number of people were injured
during a train ride and I'm ashamed to say that it's all about grabbing the attention of those customers.
It began long before Jack The Ripper hit the headlines and will continue until maturity returns (if it was
ever there) to the trade of responsible reporting.

There is a difference though... Calling something a "Mass Stabbing" or a "Mass Shooting" or a "Bombing" when that is what it is, is actually and factually correct. What I am attempting to draw attention to is the flawed idea that the weapon used is somehow more important than the hand that wields it. Yes, I do agree with you about how the days of Walter Cronkite's soothing monotone and just reporting the facts was the exception and not the rule... But there's something darker at work here, lurking in the depths of our inherent internal sociopathies... 

Some perverse love child of entitlement and delusion... 

I wonder if by becoming more "Civilized" and "Peaceful" and becoming nations of laws and order that have no place for "acceptable" violence within those constraints, we've actually made ourselves more vulnerable to the truly despicable.