It was an amazing finish to the Boston Marathon this year, for a couple of reasons. First, an American has won it for the first time in more than 30 years! And in a second, more somber sense, it’s a far cry from the end of the race last year, when three people were killed and hundreds more injured. That heinous ending was thanks to pressure cooker bombs investigators say were placed by two brothers, whose names some people don’t ever want to hear again.
The names are already out there: Dzhokhar and Tamarlan Tsarnaev. But there’s a line of thinking out there that we in the media shouldn’t use the names of people suspected in such heinous acts, that notoriety could lead others to commit copycat acts just to get their names in the headlines, or that naming the suspects glorifies the perpetrators over the victims.
So what do you think? Should the media use the names of notorious criminals?
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