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We asked our followers about a movement asking news media to limit coverage of a shooter’s name. Comments from Twitter are edited for clarity and grammar:

Yes! Shooters’ motivation is to cause pain and gain notoriety. We can't do anything about the first part, but we can for the second.

— @EB_SOA 

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If a news outlet has to ask this question, that news outlet has failed. Report the news.

— @ppietrangelo

Focus on those who have been lost, not those who seek notoriety through unspeakable acts.

— @happyabama

Letter to the editor:

I found Paste BN’s editorial on notoriety and mass killers to be facile and self-serving (“Sympathetic #NoNotoriety has a downside: Our view”).

Paste BN has a bad history of providing unnecessary notoriety to mass killers. Nearly every story you have run about the killings in South Carolina has featured a photo of the killer. Same goes for the story about the Colorado movie theater killings. Find some other images to use. Quit pontificating and clean up your act!

R. Paul Drake; Ypsilanti, Mich.

Comments from Facebook are edited for clarity and grammar:

The No Notoriety movement is a Stalinist-style manipulation of history. It turns people into non-persons by forbidding public mention of their names. Are we so afraid of the truth that we must hide from it?

— Christopher Jay Campbell

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