Named and famed: should the media stop naming the perpetrators of mass shootings?

This personal view comes from by Dr Pete Blair of Texas State University, who argues one solution to mass shootings could be to refuse to report the killer’s name.

This is part of a series of authored talks by radical thinkers, from BBC World Hacks - a new BBC World Service programme focussed on solutions, or hacks, to global problems.

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