Media's Role in Mass School Shootings

The US will not soon forget the rampage of Sandy Hook Elementary School in the new town of Connecticut two weeks before Christmas last year. Due to this tragic incident, 20 students and 8 adults died. The incident shocked the country, but the rampage of the shooting was nothing new. Over the years, many families have lost their loved ones to participate in these horrible events. As a result, these large shooting incidents such as shooting cases at Sandy Hook Elementary School attracted the attention of the public and led to the investigation of the causes of these incidents.

Mass media has played an essential role in the general perception of school photography as a social problem, and social scientists have studied the media framework for school shooting. Worth pointing out that the motivation for profits behind the creation of news may disrupt the creation of a deep understanding of social problems and constructive solutions in understanding the dynamics of mass media related to social problems there is. In many cases, journalists need to pay attention to the need to maintain profitable industry and professional ethical standards. Sometimes, reporters highlight the dramatic factors of school shooting incidents, thus destroying school shooting phenomena drinking, long-term investigation

The media mechanics of the influence of Rashomon over the school shooting incident arises from the fact that most people considers school shooting as mass mediation phenomenon rather than direct. Although school-related shooting incidents occurred historically, the media covers media including West Paducah, Kentucky State, Jonesboro, Arkansas State, and Littleton's view on school shooting incidents. Please consider it as a new social problem. As a result, the widely recognized school shooting problem is more related to the media coverage of recent events than the actual change in school violence. Most of the attention is focused on the rampage case.