How come Columbine had much more media attention?

[bladder23]

How come columbine is so popular with media when shootings at like virginia tech

Virginia tech had 33 people dead vs 15 at columbine

 

[OREOSpeedwagon]

The VT shooting was pretty big in the news here. IIRC the Columbine shooting was one of the first ones (seems like there was an Arkansas one shortly before it? can't remember). And there were a ton of details, everyone wanted to know what caused it, people started wondering if Doom on the N64 caused it, etc

 

[TwiceOver]

Because now it is just "Meh, been done before".

 

[Steve]

Also because of the kids (shooters) making that website about it and such.

 

[Modeps]

At the time, it was the third worst school shooting in US history.

 

[beat mania]

Because it has its own movie.

 

[irishScott]

Columbine was one of the first. Similar shootings no longer make enough money for the media to spend as much time on them.

 

[Pepsei]

younger kids pulling the trigger.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: Steve
Also because of the kids (shooters) making that website about it and such.

They were also in high school and too young to legally own such guns so there was that aspect as well.

 

[Cuda1447]

I'm gonna go with one of the first ones to occur. Its common nowadays, unfortunately.

 

[Farang]

The video game and planning aspects. Grenades and assault rifles versus some asshole with a pistol. Also younger victims. VT got a ton of attention, though.

 

[imported_Imp]

It's been done over and over and over again. Didn't we just have one last week? Anyhow, I hope the shooter rots in hell. Loser couldn't just kill himself and leave happy people alone.

 

[iamwiz82]

Originally posted by: irishScott
Columbine was one of the first. Similar shootings no longer make enough money for the media to spend as much time on them.

It was #20.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shooting

I think a good deal of it being publicized so much was that it was a rich area, it was well planned, and it was bloody. The others before it didn't have all three of those characteristics.

 

[bladder23]

Originally posted by: iamwiz82

Originally posted by: irishScott
Columbine was one of the first. Similar shootings no longer make enough money for the media to spend as much time on them.

It was #20.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shooting

I think a good deal of it being publicized so much was that it was a rich area, it was well planned, and it was bloody. The others before it didn't have all three of those characteristics.

you could argue that VT was well-planned as well

The shooter took out 32 by himself with locks/chains on doors etc

 

[SlitheryDee]

The first was the guy in the bell tower. Columbine was the first major one in our lifetime. As in all things the "school shooting" has become part of humanity's constant trend of oneupsmanship. It'll escalate until it is no longer new and horrible and then it will fade away, to be replaced by another new or forgotten atrocity.

 

[TallBill]

Because 100,000 people die everyday.

 

[ballmode]

I'd like to know this too

 

[krunchykrome]

Because that was the start of these school shootings in recent memory. We've become desensitized to things like this.

 

[Eeezee]

A quick check of news.bbc.co.uk reveals thatthere were FIVE school shootings this week. The front page has an article on one and mentions that there have been four others this week

 

[Nitemare]

Rich upscale school and it came first

 

[yhelothar]

Originally posted by: Imp
It's been done over and over and over again. Didn't we just have one last week? Anyhow, I hope the shooter rots in hell. Loser couldn't just kill himself and leave happy people alone.

Your attitude is a large part in why there are so many of these school shootings.

While these school shootings are nothing short of a tragic event, these kids that engage in these shootings does not exactly grow up in an environment that shows any empathy or nurturing at all, but rather immense apathy and intolerance.

Now while this obviously doesn't justify their actions, but what it does is build a lot of hate in these kids. These kids are obviously suicidal kids because they feel so miserable. And when they feel that the root of the misery stems from all the apathy that they get from the society around them, it'd be nothing short of an ultimate fantasy to for them to take a few automatic weapons and shoot them up.

 

[Epic Fail]

There were videos of shooting inside the school and kids being pull out of windows, definitely more dramatic.