The shooting massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado was no different. The result is a populace that at least feels like crime is overwhelming their homes.
People don t respect each other the way they used to.
It s just a moral decline in all of society. And reporting sometimes disturbing facts always seemed a gruesome, but necessary task in journalism. But while crime in California is at its lowest point in more than a decade, crime coverage by the media in the 1990s has reached an all-time high. According to a study by the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Media and Public Affairs, TV networks coverage of murder rose by 336 percent from 1990 to 1995. And in 1997, news shows had a record-high 486 stories about murders.