Edinburgh: Media “bears some responsibility” for copycat school killings, says award winning novelist
Sunday, 26 August 2007, 22:18
The media must bear some responsibility for copycat shootings in American schools if it insists on over hyping news stories, according to an award-winning novelist.
Lionel Shriver, speaking at the Edinburgh International Television Festival, said she would never blame TV editors for incidents like Columbine and Virginia tech killings but added that sensationalistic, conspiratorial TV [...]
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