Analysis of 48 Hours of Television News Coverage Following the Columbine High School Shooting

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Christopher M. Mosqueda ◽  
Melissa A. Heath ◽  
Elizabeth A. Cutrer-Párraga ◽  
Robert D. Ridge ◽  
Aaron P. Jackson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
School Shooting ◽  
Columbine High School ◽  
Columbine High School Shooting

Correlates of the Number Shot and Killed in Active Shooter Events

2020 ◽  
pp. 108876792097672
Author(s):  
J. Pete Blair ◽  
William L. Sandel ◽  
M. Hunter Martaindale
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
School Shooting ◽  
Active Shooter ◽  
Single Study ◽  
Columbine High School ◽  
Columbine High School Shooting

Active shooter events have captured the public’s attention since the Columbine High School shooting in 1999. Although there has been research on various aspects of these events, only a single study has attempted to identify factors that are related to the number of people injured or killed in these events. This study was limited in that it only considered the presence or absence of a semi-automatic rifle. This paper expands on the existing research by examining several other factors that may impact the total number of people shot or killed during active shooter events.

The Surprising Advance of Gun Control Politics after Parkland

2020 ◽  
pp. 213-236
Author(s):  
Sophia Young
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Gun Control ◽  
School Shooting ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Opportunity ◽  
Opportunity Structure ◽  
Mass Shootings ◽  
Columbine High School ◽  
Social Media Tools

The 1999 Columbine high school massacre marked the start of an era of recurrent US mass shootings in settings once considered safe. In the aftermath of each horrific event, gun safety advocates tried to persuade state and national politicians to adopt new regulations but with little success—until recently. This chapter compares the political aftereffects of six major mass shootings to illuminate why the 2018 Parkland high school shooting led to more political change in favor of gun regulations than the previous events. Despite an unfavorable partisan climate, the Parkland shooting spurred teenage activists adept with social media tools to take advantage of the political opportunity structure created by prior grassroots resistance organizing. In response, politicians—especially Democrats—have embraced the gun safety cause as never before.

Law Enforcement's Impact on School Violence

2019 ◽  
pp. 371-388
Author(s):  
Tanya M. Grant ◽  
Jessica Fidler
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
School Violence ◽  
School Employees ◽  
Indian Reservation ◽  
Resource Officers ◽  
Red Lake ◽  
Columbine High School ◽  
New Policies ◽  
Columbine High School Shooting ◽  
Death Count

Since the 1980s, school violence has been prominent in society and is gradually increasing in occurrence. In 1999, the Columbine High School shooting shocked the country demonstrating how deadly school violence can be, with a death count of 13 total people, including 12 students and 1 teacher. The next prominent occurrence was in 2005 on the Red Lake Indian Reservation, where 10 people were killed at the hands of a 16-year-old student. Another more recent act of school violence was in 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut, at Sandy Hook Elementary School. There, the shooter killed 28 people including children and teachers inside the school and his mother. And the latest horrific incidence of this kind took place at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in February of 2018. The shooter took the lives of 14 students and 3 school employees. As a response to these shootings, law enforcement has collaborated with schools to implement the use of school resource officers, emergency evaluation/reaction drills, and new policies regarding school violence.

scholarly journals Television News Coverage of Public Health Issues and Implications for Public Health Policy and Practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah E. Gollust ◽  
Erika Franklin Fowler ◽  
Jeff Niederdeppe
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Policy ◽  
Public Health Policy ◽  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Public Attention ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Tv News ◽  
Health Policy And Practice

Television (TV) news, and especially local TV news, remains an important vehicle through which Americans obtain information about health-related topics. In this review, we synthesize theory and evidence on four main functions of TV news in shaping public health policy and practice: reporting events and information to the public (surveillance); providing the context for and meaning surrounding health issues (interpretation); cultivating community values, beliefs, and norms (socialization); and attracting and maintaining public attention for advertisers (attention merchant). We also identify challenges for TV news as a vehicle for improving public health, including declining audiences, industry changes such as station consolidation, increasingly politicized content, potential spread of misinformation, and lack of attention to inequity. We offer recommendations for public health practitioners and researchers to leverage TV news to improve public health and advance health equity.

Media coverage of the unfolding crisis of domestic terrorism in the United States, 1990–2020

2021 ◽  
pp. 2046147X2199601
Author(s):  
Diana Zulli ◽  
Kevin Coe ◽  
Zachary Isaacs ◽  
Ian Summers
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Domestic Terrorism ◽  
Definitional Uncertainty

Public relations research has paid considerable attention to foreign terrorist crises but relatively little attention to domestic ones—despite the growing salience of domestic terrorism in the United States. This study content analyzes 30 years of network television news coverage of domestic terrorism to gain insight into four theoretical issues of enduring interest within the literature on news framing and crisis management: sourcing, contextualization, ideological labeling, and definitional uncertainty. Results indicate that the sources called upon to contextualize domestic terrorism have shifted over time, that ideological labels are more often applied on the right than the left, and that definitional uncertainty has increased markedly in recent years. Implications for the theory and practice of public relations and crisis management are discussed.

Network Television News Coverage of Environmental Risks

1989 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael R. Greenberg ◽  
Peter M. Sandman ◽  
David B. Sachsman ◽  
Kandice L. Salomone
Keyword(s):  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Environmental Risks ◽  
Network Television

Denigration of Authority? Television News Coverage of the Student Movement

1974 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 637-660 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Pride ◽  
Barbara Richards
Keyword(s):  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Student Movement

Looking over the channel: The balance of media coverage about the “refugee crisis” in Germany and the UK

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcus Maurer ◽  
Jörg Haßler ◽  
Simon Kruschinski ◽  
Pablo Jost
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Value Theory ◽  
Political Elites ◽  
Refugee Crisis ◽  
British Government ◽  
News Value ◽  
The Uk

Abstract This study compares the balance of newspaper and television news coverage about migration in two countries that were differently affected by the so-called “refugee crisis” in 2015 in terms of the geopolitical involvement and numbers of migrants being admitted. Based on a broad consensus among political elites, Germany left its borders open and received about one million migrants mainly from Syria during 2015. In contrast, the conservative British government was heavily attacked by oppositional parties for closing Britain’s borders and, thus, restricting immigration. These different initial situations led to remarkable differences between the news coverage in both countries. In line with news value theory, German media outlets reported much more on migration than did their British counterparts. In line with indexing theory, German news coverage consonantly reflected the consensual view of German political elites, while British news media reported along their general editorial lines.

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