On the 28th of April it will be 10 years since the massacre at Port Arthur in Tasmania. There has been some debate on the ABC's Media Report (and probably in the wider Australian community - and certainly in Tasmania) about the best way to mark this anniversary - or whether it should be marked at all. Into the fray sauntered The Bulletin magazine - with a 12-page spread about the massacre, with a major focus on "The Murderer". This is a focus the people of Port Arthur would have preferred not been given. Although, in support of The Bulletin's coverage, the editor said they were sure there were people who still wanted to know what had motivated "The Murderer" to open fire on innocents at Port Arthur.
Is there any way the media can truly meet the needs of these dual interests ... a community that wants to remember the victims - and a community that wants to forget (the perpetrator)?
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I remember reading Yoko Ono asking the media to never use the name of the man that murder John Lennon so as to not give him the media profile he so desired.
There is no sane reason or motive to shoot 60 people - 35 of them dead. The Bulletin got it very wrong.
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