Sue petrone lost her son in the school shooting at columbine high school. She says she was outraged when a newspaper ran a photo of him lying on the sidewalk dead. "How could you be so cruel? This is just wrong," said Petrone, who called the paper's editor.
John Temple was the editor of Rocky Mountain News in April 1999, when two students committed mass murder at Columbine High School. The photos he published that day would go on to win the Pulitzer Prize and enrage Daniel Rohrbough’s mom.
This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and edited and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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