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Murder The Media And The Politics Of Public Feelings Summary

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Murder, the Media, and the Politics of Public Feelings is a book analyzing two murders that took place and brought attention to the collapsing political experience in the United States of America. The first murder was the pummeling of Matthew Shepard. Shepard was a gay, male student from Laramie, Wyoming, who attended the University of Wyoming. One night Matthew went to a bar and at the end of the night he was seen leaving with two males. The suspects claimed that they pretended to be gay in order to rob Shepard. The media zeroed in on his sexual orientation. In the wake of his death, this case brought a lot of attention to hate crime law at many different levels. James Byrd, Jr was an African American from Jasper, Texas that was killed by

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