When the media cover mass shootings, would depicting the carnage make a difference?
- Written by Nicole Smith Dahmen, Associate Professor, School of Journalism and Communication, University of Oregon
Some argue that news coverage of shootings is too sanitized.puriri/Shutterstock.comSince 20 children were gunned down at Sandy Hook Elementary School in December 2012, we’ve seen public calls for the release of crime scene photos – the idea being that the visceral horror evoked by images of young, brutalized bodies could spur some sort...
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