My son would be just as dead from someone named John Doe. The name is irrelevant.

As jury selection proceeds in the trial of the Aurora Theater shooter, victims' families

implore the media not to say his name. From WNYC in New York, this is on the media. I'm Bob

Garfield. And I'm Bob Garfield.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone.

The so-called Ebola doctor, Craig Spencer, describes being at the center of a media-fueled Malstrom.

People thought that I should be, I forget what the exact tweet was, but tried for manslaughter.

Three years ago, the government secretly demanded the Gmail accounts of three WikiLeaks staffers.

Google complied.

This was equivalent to the FBI, coming to your house when you're not there,

taking absolutely everything and not even telling you until three years later.

There's more after this. From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.

I'm Brooke Ladstone.

And I'm Bob Garfield.

In the summer of 2012, a heavily armed man with garishly dyed hair stood in an Aurora, Colorado movie theater, and opened fire on the audience.

Twelve people were killed, seventy others injured.

Jury selection in the case began last week.

It's journalistically routine to name the accused.

It is, after all, a matter of public record. But for the purposes of this

conversation, it's a fact I'll simply leave out. And I'll do that, because that's the way our guest

would prefer it. Tom Tebes lost his 24-year-old son, Alex, in the shooting rampage. Alex died

protecting his girlfriend from gunfire.

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