Was There Too Much Media Coverage Of The Littleton, Co Murders?
Two young men wearing long black trench coats (later identified as members of the "trench coat mafia") enter a Colorado suburban high school. It was their high school, filled with their classmates and teachers. Two excruciating hours later thirty-one people were wounded and fifteen people were dead including the gunmen who chose to end their killing spree by turning the guns on themselves. The media coverage of this horrifying incident was astronomical and the source of much criticism in the aftermath.
The public's immediate response to the April 1999 shootings at the Columbine High School was to find someone and/or something to blame. The fact that the Columbine killers were white, affluent, and popular; not at all fitting your "typical" profile of a murderer, likely was for some the most distressing fact of all. Psychologists, sociologists, politicians and average citizens alike were quick to point the finger indiscriminately at any number of potential causes; including the......
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