Columbine High School Shootings

This was not the first school shooting in the United States. Others have followed it since, but it received an almost dizzying amount of notice in the media. Perhaps this is because of the scale of the carnage, perhaps merely because it happened to come at the historical moment when Americans were beginning to be ready to deal with the consequences of their living in such a highly armed society. It could also be because it occurred as the candidates for this yearÆs presidential elections were hammering out their positions, and this is an example of what happens when so many (but not all!) citizens have guns. This was an issue that became woven into the early rhetoric of the campaign û- with progressives lobbying for greater gun control and conservatives arguing for armed teachers.

But beyond the issue of guns in society and the ways in which children can or cannot be protected from the violence that seems to surround each one of us in todayÆs society, another aspect of the way in which the Columbine tragedy was covered was also fundamentally Amer

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ets are independent, each of them works under the threat of being banned, a threat that is usually sufficient to avoid violating government regulations laid on them (Kelly, 1998, p. 12). This set of regulations, in which the press is clearly designed to be an aid to the government in promoting national pride and stability, is almost entirely different from the major provision under U.S. law concerning the media, which is the First Amendment prohibition of government interference in the way in which news is defined, written and distributed. Freedom of the press is the immunity of the communications media (including newspapers, books, magazines, radio, and television) from government control or censorship, including the kind of self-censorship that occurs when the government can drive a publication out of business if it does not adhere to the party line. Within the West, freedom of the press is regarded as fundamental to individual rights, human dignity, self-respect, and personal responsibility. It is generally believed that without free media, a free society and democratic self-government would not be possible. By recognizing the right to dissent, the governments of the United States, Canada, Western Europe, and other emerging
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