In 2011, The New York Times announced the arrival of drone journalism. Newsrooms were beginning to use drones to help journalists safely report on events that were difficult to attend—protests and environmental disasters. The mood was bright: drones were hip. As communication scholars Lisa Parks and Caren Kaplan write, the news media had a nearly insatiable appetite for drones—celebrating the novelty of unmanned aircraft flying inside volcanoes alongside panic about drones invading domest...
