Twenty years after Columbine, we examine the impact the attack has had on today’s youths – and how the media has more recently shifted its coverage of school shootings.
Columbine at 20: Media Attention and Copycat Killers
Producers: Erik German and Olivia Katrandjian
Editor: Anne Checler
Twenty years after Columbine, we examine the impact the attack has had on today’s youths – and how the media has more recently shifted its coverage of school shootings.
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