Professor tracks Columbine media discourse from 'school shooting' to 'terrorism'
Friday, April 17, 2009 - 11:56
in Psychology & Sociology
Decades spent studying mass media messages of fear led noted Arizona State University scholar David Altheide to examine how the Columbine High School shootings on April 20, 1999, were originally portrayed in the media and how those messages changed after 9/11 and leading up to the war in Iraq.