...while the FBI later concluded that was really just Harris, and that Klebold was Jewish and didn't like what Harris said/did with that. The FBI also viewed the press as wrong for evaluating them as a duo with shared traits, rather than very different people who linked up:
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...some of this early reporting. Examples: they didn't choose April 20 for you-know-who's birthday, but rather tried for April 19, the anniversary of Oklahoma City, and got delayed. Students credited both killers as having an interest in Hitler...
Tricky subject. There were first-week media reports about their interest in those subjects, such as this story in the Hartford Courant (I highlighted certain words, and you can then see in the full screenshot how often they appear throughout). The trouble was that the FBI would later contradict...
Both Roger and Gene talked about the importance of movie reviewers being reporters.
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Applicable to so many issues, e.g. Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault.
Commemorate the victims, do NOT reward the perpetrators.
I graduated high school the year before Columbine and now I work in a high school. Nothing is the same, where one it was unthinkable that violence could happen in school now its possibility colors every interaction with a student. We have done nothing about this.
Absolutely :)
Yes, the press got a lot wrong, and Cullen writes about how the news media and the surviving students created a loop of wrong conclusions in the first few hours. Cullen published the FBI conclusions five years later:
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You bet
The Pope knows organizations didn’t have the flu
Reposted with alt. Important stuff.
Pope Leo knows Scottie didn’t foul him
with alt
April 20, 1975: Lots going on in this clip of Sam Lacey scoring for Kansas City-Omaha in Game 5 of the Western Conference Semis in Chicago.
—Very visible hockey boards/glass
—Jerry Sloan and Rick Adelman in uniform
—Shot clock on the floor
—Jerry West calling the game for CBS
Yes all around. I’m reacting to the immediate press reactions in ‘99, the blame placed on Manson and then Manson’s own very different approach with Michael Moore.
But yes, Marilyn Manson has troubling and active allegations: www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...
It was nuts to pin Columbine on Manson et al, but dude is a(n alleged) scumbag. Not sure we should be out here propping the dude up.
Yep, exactly
Marilyn Manson’s famous and heartfelt appeal for adults to listen to troubled teens. Though we later learned that Eric Harris was a maniac — Dave Cullen characterized him as a psychopath — but Manson’s empathy stood out.
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The rest of the Marilyn Manson segment in Michael Moore’s “Bowling For Columbine,” 2002 Oscar-winning documentary
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I was a HS junior too, and the government/press/authority attack on youth pop culture — specifically Marilyn Manson and Doom — was overwhelming, just as it had been in the first half of the decade with hip-hop.
From Michael Moore’s “Bowling For Columbine”:
as always on point, ebert knew more reponsible media practices 28 years ago
The sheer joy that @ckamka.bsky.social graphics bring to me every day is a wonderful thing.
After Gabby Gifford, after Sandy Hook I realised that if they wouldn’t act after young children or people in their own line of work, the politicians would never do anything.
27 years since the world changed forever for American kids but the idiots in power continue to do fuck-all to stop it from happening over and over again. 14 years since Sandy Hook and America decided elementary schools were free game, too. Why not shoot 'em young, when they're harder targets?
everyone always painted the columbine killers as Weird Bullied Nerds and nobody ever brought up the white supremacism
I mean, yes, the US media has been shit long before the current climate of big business buyout to even well before the 90's, but I think he still pointed the finger at a scapegoat instead of the real problem (legendarily shitty gun laws)
Great review. I had issues with the movie but it was very well done, and powerful, and I certainly never forgot it.
Fantastic writeup! I don't want to be too excited, but you did a great job on this. I love "patient artful sadism." Really well done man.
I did not like it but I appreciate Van Sant going for it.
