Sensationalized Media

Sensationalized Media Student: Professor: Course title: Date: Sensationalized Media Crime: Derek Shrout is a self-proclaimed white supremacist who wanted to commit hate crimes at Russell County High School in Eastern Alabama.Part 1: Prepare an objective and factual report of the crime or court case. This part of the paper should be concise and unbiased, so use authentic law enforcement reports, if available. The crime case involved Derek Shrout, a 17-year old self-proclaimed white supremacist. According to Russell County’s law enforcement officers, the suspect had an intention of committing hate crimes using homemade explosives at Russel County High School. Shrout had drafted his plans of committing the crime on a book, which he had carelessly placed where it could be easily found. Unfortunately for him, the journal was found by one of the school’s teachers and Shrout’s plot was discovered early enough to avert a disaster (The Jawa Report, 2013). Police officials reported that the suspect’s book contained plans that looked similar to potential terrorist attacks as well as attacks of violence that posed grave danger on the school (DeLong, 2013). In his plans, Shrout was specifically targeting one teacher and six fellow students. Among those targeted, six were black and the only white male on the list was targeted because Shrout thought he was gay. According to investigators, Shrout started to write in his journal only three days after a teen gunman killed twenty children and six adults at an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut on December 14th 2012 (Osunsami, 2013). The teacher who found Shrout’s journal containing the bomb plot immediately informed the authorities. Consequently, the police searched the suspect’s house and found several tobacco containers that were filled with shrapnel. The containers also had holes drilled for fuses, and police investigators reported that Shrout was about to turn them into live grenades. Russell County sheriff, Health Taylor said that the potential bombs were incomplete, but could have been ready a day later (Stormfront, 2013). The suspect was doing this without the knowledge of his parents. Upon interrogation by the authorities, his explanation was that what he had written was simply a work of fiction, and that he never had the intention of carrying out those plans in real life, but the sheriff disagreed. He had learned how to make the explosive devices on the internet. Shrout was put behind bars in Russel County jail after being charged as an adult with attempted assault (Gray Digital Media, 2013).Part 2: Take the objective and factual summary you prepared in Part 1 and write a sensationalized media story such as the media might produce. You may choose the format, such as a newspaper article, website, etc. Title: White Supremacist’s Bomb Plot at His School Stopped Police officers have stopped what would have been the second major terrorist attack by a teen at an educational institution in less than three weeks. This comes barely a month after a...