Do you feel the media coverage of today's campus shooting differs from those Columbine High School first day ?

If you watched both times there is a very distinct difference.


Where it goes from here, no one knows. All those cell phone


text and blogs they can be even more horrible once revealed.


Many of us watched Columbine every station all day. I feel the media gave this a bit of grace in a disgraceful time.


Honor to those fallen. Respect to the real evidence yet to unfold.


Next you can step away from those who portray the graphics


and exploit the disaster. Change the channel. Then we were glued to it.

Do you feel the media coverage of today's campus shooting differs from those Columbine High School first day ?
I did find the finger-pointing annoying. As someone who goes to college, I can't imagine how a campus could be locked down completely. Especially when there are thousands of people on that campus each day.
Reply:I've only watched small amounts of it. Shocked again. So many this time. Where do these weirdos come from? What is happening to this younger generation? (I sound like my parents now.) Youth should just go back to protesting the establishment (non violently) rather than hurting each other. ;%26gt;(
Reply:The big difference is the finger pointing started so early on this time. VT is a city of 30k+ and the media is saying that the faculty and admin should have "locked down" the entire campus. Nancy Grace is a ****.
Reply:While I am not trying to say that this isn't a big deal, because it is, it isn't much different than any of the daily bombings in Iraq. And it hurts me that people just ignore all the innocent deaths in Iraq, but then when it's on U.S. soil, it's all the media can talk about.

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