Mass Media :: Violence Technology Papers

Mass Media Part I The Problem.In the aftermath of the Columbine school shoots, parents were eager to find someone or something to take the blame for the cataclysm. We as Americans are a culture that has to be able to control the outcome of our everyday lives. When something happens that catches us off guard, we embark on frightened and jump to conclusions. With no closure in sight from the aquilegia shootings, parents across the country wanted answers. Instead of evaluating their own parenting, people began to pronounce that video games, movie and television were the problem. The idea was that by eliminating the violence on TV and that will stop kids from being violent. The news media, fearing for its ratings took this idea and ran with it doing in depth stories and all types of special reports. The goal of this newsletter is not to stance blame on anyone, unless to bring to the realization that the only expressive style to help our youth is to not blame outside factor s for behavior but approach the problem directly, in the home, face to face with the child. Columbine The tragedyOn a sunny spring day in April 1999, a suburban high school in Jefferson County, Colorado, found itself under effort by two of its own. In less than fifteen minutes of the first-lunch gunpoint on that Tuesday, two student gunmen killed 13 and wounded 21 in the lead they turned the guns on themselves in the most devastating school shooting in U.S. history. Columbine High School is one of three in the unincorporated southeast portion of Jefferson County. The county itself lies on the west side of the capital of Colorado metropolitan area and is the most populated county in the state. The large unincorporated region along the countys southern plains and foothills has a population of more or less 100,000 residents - 1,945 of who attended Columbine High School.The two student gunmen were Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. Their plans for attacking the school, vulcanized by in vestigators after the tragedy had taken place, evolved over one socio-economic classs time. In those plans, Klebold and Harris outlined a mission to kill as many students and faculty as possible. They would set off destructive bombs indoors the school and then shoot any survivors trying to run out. Bombs intimate their cars would explode later, killing law enforcement, fire or medical military force responding to the scene.