I think this may be the article that I share with everyone in class because reading it really moved me. It allowed me to seriously question our abilities as journalists to deal with crisis events, and the human nature's longing to make sense of tragedy...during which we often frame the happening in ways that weren't completely accurate.
This article take a strong long at all the ways we got Columbine wrong...the killers weren't bullies, they were trouble troubled young men who never got psychological help. They weren't taking revenge on those that wronged them, they had actually planned a Oklahoma City like attack...but none of the bombs went off. The girl who's mom wrote a book about her sacrifice...never said yes, never happened.
The chaos that occurred ten years ago today led reporters to search for reasons, led the community to search for answers. Amid all of the reckoning with why this tragedy happened the truth got skewed and this article is seeking to bring it back, a decade later. Hindsight is a beautiful thing.
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