Terrorists receive instant biographical prominence from the media coverage they engineered

Evidence

Minutes after the Christchurch massacres, we knew the name of the terrorist. We knew his origins, his motives, his age, and his hateful diatribes on 8chan and other sites that gave a platform to his rage that would unravel into unimaginable violence. We also knew, in morbid detail, who his white supremacist heroes were who inspired him to walk into two mosques and indiscriminately slay fifty-one Muslims. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 968

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the broader critique of media complicity in mass-shooter notoriety familiar from coverage of Utoya, Columbine and similar events reported in later chapters.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how fully were the fifty-one victims’ names and life stories publicized at equal length in Western media?