It's becoming a fairly predictable pattern, tragically. And that raises some massive ethical and educational issues. However, there are no easy or obvious solutions to the problems. Unless we're willing to have governmental rules and regulations rule our lives more than they already do.
School Shooting, Warren Marks and His Home Movie Camera: Columbine Redoux
How it goes. After the massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton Colorado in 1999 where 12 students and one teacher were murdered by high school seniors Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold (who then killed themselves)… many people in the community, in the nation and in the world wondered could more people have been saved? [...]
How'd the media handle this story? Here's a decent dissection of Fox News and John Gibson falling off the verbal tightrope he tried to watch.
On the October 10 broadcast of his nationally syndicated Fox News Radio show, while discussing 14-year-old Asa H. Coon, who earlier that day shot four people at his Cleveland high school before killing himself, Fox News host John Gibson asserted that "because the school is very heavily African-American, I did leap to a conclusion" that "the shooter might have been African-American." Gibson went on to say that he "knew this was not a classic hip-hop shooting" once he learned Coon killed himself. Gibson continued: "Hip-hoppers do not kill themselves. They walk away. Now, I didn't need to hear [...]
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