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On the Trail of the D.C. Sniper
Jack R. Censer
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Description for On the Trail of the D.C. Sniper
Hardback. For a month in the fall of 2002, a series of sniper attacks suddenly dominated the headlines in the nation's capital. This title uses these remarkable events to explore the shifting character of journalism as it entered the twenty-first century and to question how this change in the way news is gathered and reported impacted the events it covered. Num Pages: 248 pages, 8 b&w illustrations, 1 map. BIC Classification: JFD; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 522.
For a month in the fall of 2002, a series of sniper attacks suddenly dominated the headlines in the nation's capital. Beginning in the Washington suburbs, these crimes eventually stretched over one hundred miles along I-95 to Richmond. More than a thousand law officers would pursue the perpetrators - an enormous number for one case. The number of reporters covering the story, however, was even greater. ""On the Trail of the D.C. Sniper"" uses the remarkable events of that October to explore the shifting character of journalism as it entered the twenty-first century and to question how this change in ... Read more
For a month in the fall of 2002, a series of sniper attacks suddenly dominated the headlines in the nation's capital. Beginning in the Washington suburbs, these crimes eventually stretched over one hundred miles along I-95 to Richmond. More than a thousand law officers would pursue the perpetrators - an enormous number for one case. The number of reporters covering the story, however, was even greater. ""On the Trail of the D.C. Sniper"" uses the remarkable events of that October to explore the shifting character of journalism as it entered the twenty-first century and to question how this change in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813928944
SKU
V9780813928944
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About Jack R. Censer
Jack R. Censer is Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at George Mason University. He is the coauthor, with Lynn Hunt, of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution.
Reviews for On the Trail of the D.C. Sniper
"Based on strong and remarkably comprehensive research of news coverage across the media, this book is an intelligent and knowledgeable work on a traumatic event that became a matter of broad national interest. This episode is well worth the kind of close attention Censer gives it." - Michael Schudson, University of California, San Diego, author of Why Democracies Need an ... Read more