[rale00]

Maybe the solution is to go after the advertisers. If there was backlash from the public towards companies whose products were advertised next to programs that sensationalized murder, those companies would cut funding in a hurry. The media would reform itself in a hurry in that case.

[squarefoot]

A hundred times this. Nothing is going to change until they're hit where it hurts more: profits. Enough people taking note of all products showed during or very near mass shootings coverage and then refusing to buy them, possibly informing the companies about the choice, would send quite a message.

[1123581321]

Such a movement would need to be popular enough to bring its own additional attention to shootings. In order to spread information about the details of the news and the advertisers, it would effectively become an alternate news source about them.