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Columbine and the Dread Media AnniversaryStory
By encinoman
Here we are, &;celebrating&; ten years since the maniacal shootings at Columbine. And last week, &;20 years ago today Sergeant Pepper&; didn&;t teach the band to play, but 96 people were killed in a soccer stampede in England. And today is the anniversary of the Oklahoma City bombing; time to wallow in the people&;s grief.
Perhaps this is one reason people hate journalists, not just asking victims how they feel at the scene of the disaster, but revisiting it 10, 20 or more years out.
As I said last year,
&;If I ran the journalism world, the first thing I would ban would be the “anniversary story.” Even though I won an LA Press Club Award for this LA Times piece about the Rodney King beating.
Basically, a media ‘anniversary’ is an excuse for journalists to write a little history, bring up some (generally lurid) event from the past or do some “Trivial Pursuit’ style follow-up on half-remembered players.&;
And the big one is coming up this summer. No, not 40 years since the moon landings. I&;m sure we can look forward to an interview with Roman Polanski, on his thoughts on the 40th anniversary of his wife and the others slaughtered in the Manson killings.
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Tags: Columbine-killings, Manson, media-anniversaries, moon-landings, Roman-Polanski, soccer-stampede
This entry was posted on April 20, 2009 at 1:52 am and is filed under media-anniversaries, tabloid-journalism.
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