Eric Harris

Prisoner Claims Soy-Based Meals Are Cruel And Unusual Punishment

Posted 01.07.2012

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Florida prisoner Eric Harris, 34, currently serving a life sentence for sexual battery on a child, has filed a lawsuit that claims serving soy-laden m...

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ABC Will Cover Casey Anthony Without Its Checkbook

Shelley Ross | Posted 10.03.2011

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Shelley Ross

The high cost of paying for interviews has nothing to do with the amount of the check. One can only hope that CBS and NBC follow ABC News as they begin to show the world you can put the toothpaste back in the tube.

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Columbine High School Yearbook Removed From Auction Site

Posted 09.20.2011

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A 1999 Columbine High School yearbook that went up for auction on Los Angeles-based "Nate D. Sanders Auctions" website nearly fetched $700, but the or...

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Columbine and Australia

Jeff Kass | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jeff Kass

The suicidal twins from Australia showed us that once again, it comes back to Columbine.

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Columbine and the Connecticut Shooter: Mad at the World

Jeff Kass | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jeff Kass

So why did Omar Thornton, a black 34-year-old truck driver who worked for a beer distribution company, shoot and kill more than the five "racists" he claimed to be tracking?

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Columbine and the End of Journalism: A Daily Blog Series, Part IV

Jeff Kass | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jeff Kass

I previously discussed Newsweek's coverage of Columbine's ten-year anniversary. But they were not the only ones who wrote as if they were unaware of the twists and turns in the Columbine story.

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Columbine and the End of Journalism: A Daily Blog Series, Part II

Jeff Kass | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jeff Kass

The lesson on this Columbine anniversary may not come from the shootings themselves, but rather how the media has covered the shootings since the ten-year anniversary last year.

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Columbine and the End of Journalism... A Daily Blog Series, Part I.

Jeff Kass | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jeff Kass

Media coverage of the ten-year anniversary of Columbine was often uninformed and served to create new myths. Many reporters bought into a new myth that the killers were simply ordinary, popular teens.

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Columbine, and the Terrorist Mind

Jeff Kass | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jeff Kass

It is instructive to see how some of the common denominators listed in the a New York Times about the psychological research that is emerging on terrorists match school shooters.

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Is Fort Hood Like Columbine?

Newsweek | Dave Cullen | Posted 05.25.2011

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My brain is about to bust with all the apparent parallels to Columbine, Virginia Tech and 9/11, and the startling differences to each as well. But the...

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Susan Klebold: Columbine Killer's Mom Writes Essay For Oprah's O Magazine; "No Inkling" Son Was Suicidal

AP | KRISTEN WYATT | Posted 05.25.2011

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DENVER — In the first detailed public remarks by any parent of the two Columbine killers, Dylan Klebold's mother says she had no idea her son wa...

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Why Two White Kids Are a Senseless Tragedy but an Arab American Is Terrorism

Brian Ross | Posted 05.25.2011

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Brian Ross

When a couple of white kids shoot up a school, it is a tragedy. Bring on a shooting at a military base that involves an Arab-American though, and the media does everything it can to shout "terrorism."

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A Disturbing New Book About The Columbine Massacre Asks: Do You Know Who Your Children Are?

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 11.17.2011

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Jesse Kornbluth

Don't call Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold "tormented" or "misunderstood." Because they weren't. They gave away lots of clues. And they totally bamboozled their parents.

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Growing Up In the Shadow of Columbine

Youth Radio -- Youth Media International | Posted 05.25.2011

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Youth Radio -- Youth Media International

Erin Bilir grew up in Littleton, Colorado and remembers the day of the shootings and how it changed everything for kids in that town.

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