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Obviously, you haven't answered my question. :)
I'm not replicating any behaviour of the media. Once again, an MP has been murdered, and regardless of political affiliation, that is what matters.
With polarising figures like Bolsonaro, you'd have a polarised media picture following his demise, just as you had it when Trump lost the election. It's not a useful comparison to two rank-and-file MPs, following whose murders you get tributes not unlike those you'd get for most public figures. Very few public figures get negative obituaries. You really have to be of the calibre of a Jimmy Savile to get one.
Oliver Schick-
You seem to have misunderstood me. I’m not calling for negative obituaries, I never made comment about what the press are up to. Someone on here quoted saying that Amess was “decent” to which I raised an objection. I’m not making claims about what the media should do, but about what we as private individuals can do. Which is to say, we can be clear about the wrongs of political violence without unnecessarily eulogising its victims.
I didn’t answer your question about Jo Cox, because it seemed to be about media behaviour and I’m not talking about media behaviour.
You haven’t answered my question either ;)
Eejit
I understand that the media have to behave in a certain fashion, yes. Their jobs are largely dependent on presenting politics as a parlour game, where good faith actors have abstract ideological disagreements about how to achieve good outcomes. I don’t see why we are obligated to replicate that behaviour here or anywhere else.
Do you disagree that we can separate the wrongs of political violence from the character of the victim? If Bolsonaro were to be assassinated tomorrow, would you want the papers to be full of “he was a good man, he was a wise man”? And if they were, would you not acknowledge that would be degrading to civil norms?