Commemorating the Kent State Tragedy Through Victims- Trauma in T
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f fipButler UniversityDigital Commons @ Butler UniversityScholarship and Professional Work • CommunicationCollege of Communication2009Commemorating th Commemorating the Kent State Tragedy Through Victims- Trauma in T he Kent state Tragedy Through Victims' Trauma in Television News Coverage, 1990 - 2000.Kristen HoerlButler University, khoerl@butler.eduFollow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/ccom_papers & Part of the Communication CommonsRecommended CitationHoerl, K.E. (2009) Commemo Commemorating the Kent State Tragedy Through Victims- Trauma in T rating the Kent State tragedy through victims' trauma in television news coverage. 1990-2000. The Communication Review, 12(2). pp 107-131 Available frCommemorating the Kent State Tragedy Through Victims- Trauma in T
om digitalcommons.butler.edu/ccom_papers/19/This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the College of Communication at Digital Commonsf fipButler UniversityDigital Commons @ Butler UniversityScholarship and Professional Work • CommunicationCollege of Communication2009Commemorating th Commemorating the Kent State Tragedy Through Victims- Trauma in T l Commons © Butler University. For more information, please contact digitalscholarship@butler edu.Conunemorating the Kent State tragedy 0Commemorating the Kent State Tragedy through Victims' Trauma in Television News Coverage. 1990-2000Kristen E. Hoerl. Assistant Professor Department of Conununicati Commemorating the Kent State Tragedy Through Victims- Trauma in T on and Journalism 212C Tichenor Hall. Auburn University Auburn AL 36849-5211 (334) 844-2768-phone (512) 796-3510-cell (334) 844-4573 - fax hoerlkefo aCommemorating the Kent State Tragedy Through Victims- Trauma in T
uburn ■ edu Ph.D. University of Texas. AustinAn earlier version of this manuscript was presented at the National Communication Association. Miami. Flof fipButler UniversityDigital Commons @ Butler UniversityScholarship and Professional Work • CommunicationCollege of Communication2009Commemorating th Commemorating the Kent State Tragedy Through Victims- Trauma in T and killed four students. This essay critically interprets mainstream television journalism that commemorated the shootings in the past eighteen years. Throughout this coverage.predominant framing devices depoliticized the Kent State tragedy by characterizing both former students and guard members a Commemorating the Kent State Tragedy Through Victims- Trauma in T s trauma vicinns, rhe emphasis on eyewitnesses as victims provided the basis for a therapeutic frame that promoted reconciliation as a rationale for cCommemorating the Kent State Tragedy Through Victims- Trauma in T
ommemorating the shootings. This dominant news frame tacitly advanced a model of commemorative journalism at the expense of articulating political crif fipButler UniversityDigital Commons @ Butler UniversityScholarship and Professional Work • CommunicationCollege of Communication2009Commemorating th Commemorating the Kent State Tragedy Through Victims- Trauma in T ous dissent.Keywords: journalistic memory, victim politics. dissent, news frames. Kent State. NationalGuardCommemorating the Kent State tragedy 2Commemorating the Kent State Tragedy through Victims’ Trauma in Television News Coverage. 1990-2000After May 4. 1970. Kent State University became shorthan Commemorating the Kent State Tragedy Through Victims- Trauma in T d for tragedy caused by dissent over the Vietnam War. The tragedy occurred on the heels of protests against the United States' invasion of Cambodia. OCommemorating the Kent State Tragedy Through Victims- Trauma in T
n the weekend Nixon announced the invasion. Kent State University’s ROTC building mysteriously bunted down, prompting the state's governor John Rhodesf fipButler UniversityDigital Commons @ Butler UniversityScholarship and Professional Work • CommunicationCollege of Communication2009Commemorating th Commemorating the Kent State Tragedy Through Victims- Trauma in T nd. That Monday, students gathered in the commons area in spite of the guard's order to disperse.People joined to protest the war and the guard's presence; others stood by out of curiosity. After efforts to break up the crowd failed, several members of the guard simultaneously lowered their rifles, Commemorating the Kent State Tragedy Through Victims- Trauma in T fired into the crowd, and killed students Allison Krause, Jeffrey Miller.Sandra Scheuer. William Schroeder. The shootings injured nine other students,Commemorating the Kent State Tragedy Through Victims- Trauma in T
including Dean Kahler who was paralyzed from the waist down.Although the Kent State shootings occurred ox er thirty years ago. they have been a hauntf fipButler UniversityDigital Commons @ Butler UniversityScholarship and Professional Work • CommunicationCollege of Communication2009Commemorating th Commemorating the Kent State Tragedy Through Victims- Trauma in T ng] toward civil breakdown" (Kaniewski. 2000). This documentary framed protest as an instigator and embodiment of the social fragmentation that, according to the film, marred the United States during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Writing for the Washington Post in 1990. Haynes Johnson (1990) wrote Commemorating the Kent State Tragedy Through Victims- Trauma in T that the events "signaled the end of student activism and involvement and the beginning of a new era of individualism" (p. A2.). Rather than invite rCommemorating the Kent State Tragedy Through Victims- Trauma in T
enewed public support for student activism, the Kent State shootings have come to signifyConunemorating the Kent State tragedy 3a youthful populace wif fipButler UniversityDigital Commons @ Butler UniversityScholarship and Professional Work • CommunicationCollege of Communication2009Commemorating th Commemorating the Kent State Tragedy Through Victims- Trauma in T at the shootings oiler a vivid example of what some scholars refer to as “flashbulb memories," or individual events with sharp political or emotional impact beyond the people who experienced them first hand (Schudson. 1992: Zelizer, 1992b: Kirschenblatt-Gimblett, 2003; Edy. 2006). Further, commentar Commemorating the Kent State Tragedy Through Victims- Trauma in T ies about the shootings as heralding social fragmentation and private life over an engaged citizenry articulate the memory of Kent State as a public tCommemorating the Kent State Tragedy Through Victims- Trauma in T
rauma. As Zelizer (2002) explains, public traumas constitute events that "rattle default notions of what it means morally to remain members of a collef fipButler UniversityDigital Commons @ Butler UniversityScholarship and Professional Work • CommunicationCollege of Communication2009Commemorating th Commemorating the Kent State Tragedy Through Victims- Trauma in T inning photograph of fourteen-year-okl Mary Ami Vecchio kneeling in horror before the slain body of Jeffrey Miller moments after the shootings ended (Hariman and Lucaites. 2001). Thus, the news media played a central role in bringing the shootings to national prominence.Although interest in the Kent Commemorating the Kent State Tragedy Through Victims- Trauma in T State shootings continues, knowledge about events leading up to the shootings remain uncertain and contested. The shootings represented a rare instanCommemorating the Kent State Tragedy Through Victims- Trauma in T
ce in which the militia was deployed against .American citizens. In 1970. a Gallup poll indicated that 58% of the public held the students accountablef fipButler UniversityDigital Commons @ Butler UniversityScholarship and Professional Work • CommunicationCollege of Communication2009Commemorating th Commemorating the Kent State Tragedy Through Victims- Trauma in T s as “the most popular murders ever committed in the United States" (p. 19). Public support for the National Guard may be understood in the context of news media coverage of the student uprisings and campus Commemorating the Kent State Tragedy Through Victims- Trauma in T f fipButler UniversityDigital Commons @ Butler UniversityScholarship and Professional Work • CommunicationCollege of Communication2009Commemorating thGọi ngay
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