Holy Crap - Massacre At Virginia Tech

[SunMo]

luckily you couldn't hear it during my cell phone footage on CNN

[Feva]

I have to admit that I laughed pretty hard when I read about the kids jumping out of their windows. Gives new meaning to the 'fight or flight' instinct.

I'll give you props on that since it seems no one else will.

[MDS]

The fire alarm went off at my building last night and people were freaking out because they thought a crazy guy was gonna kill everyone. I blame igy.

[Diomedes]

You'd think that thousands of the most important, faultless people in the world were slain yesterday given the orgy of overblown sob story coverage this is getting.

Americans need to get over themselves.   farging sad story, but hardly global in scale as CNN.com and their ilk would have you believe.  It's good for ad rates I suppose.  Yay capitalism!

[ice grillin you]

of course the media will overblow this to no end...thats how they do...but that comes later on...for now this IS a global story and a monumental domestic story

its the biggest mass murder shooting in the HISTORY OF THE COUNTRY...the biggest of anything is gonna be a huge...then add in mass murder and you have a monster


we arent talking about the imus thing here

[Rome]

You'd think that thousands of the most important, faultless people in the world were slain yesterday given the orgy of overblown sob story coverage this is getting.

Americans need to get over themselves.   farging sad story, but hardly global in scale as CNN.com and their ilk would have you believe.  It's good for ad rates I suppose.  Yay capitalism!

That's exactly the point I made repeatedly on the other Eagles board yesterday and I was farging blasted for it.

[rjs246]

How can you, or anyone, think that the largest killing spree in the country's history isn't news?

[Seabiscuit36]

Supposedly this is the Shooter

[Rome]

How can you, or anyone, think that the largest killing spree in the country's history isn't news?

Where did I say I didn't think it was news?

[Diomedes]

How can you, or anyone, think that the largest killing spree in the country's history isn't news?

Oh, it's news.  But 30 people being slaughtered happens daily in the world, and gets scant coverage.  These thirty people getting slaughtered has the media and the world hanging on every stupid revelation..the scale of treatment is out of whack.

[rjs246]

Where did I say I didn't think it was news?

Don't play the semantics game with me, PG. Downplaying the significance of this incident is idiotic.

Your attempts at cynicism don't ring true here.

[PhillyGirl]

What kind of bugged me yesterday was that while its really tragic and horrible and sad....Brian Williams on NBC news last night said that "Everyone will remember where they were when the shootings at Virginia Tech happened."

Huh? I will NEVER forget where I was or what I was doing when the planes hit the WTC, just as my parents won't forget where they were and what they were doing when JFK was shot.

But like I don't remember where I was when Colombine happened...I won't remember what I was doing yesterday either.

Insensitive or right on?

[Diomedes]

"Downplaying the significance..."

What IS the significance?  Is it more important than the 30 people who get slaughtered every day in Sudan?  In Iraq?   Etc?  Do you dispute that the coverage disparity implies that these murders are more significant than those?  Do you really accept that they are?

My point:  the significance of this story is being way, way overblown (like most things that happen to "us" instead of "them").

[ice grillin you]

What kind of bugged me yesterday was that while its really tragic and horrible and sad....Brian Williams on NBC news last night said that "Everyone will remember where they were when the shootings at Virginia Tech happened."

Huh? I will NEVER forget where I was or what I was doing when the planes hit the WTC, just as my parents won't forget where they were and what they were doing when JFK was shot.

But like I don't remember where I was when Colombine happened...I won't remember what I was doing yesterday either.

Insensitive or right on?

definitely not insensitive...but that will change person by person...i personally will never forget where i was...but VT is essentially a local school for where i live...i work with and know lots of people who went there knew someone who went there or knows someone who is there...that said i also remember specifically where i was for columbine

this is different than columbine tho...columbine wasnt the biggest mass killing in the country much less more than double the biggest ever


Is it more important than the 30 people who get slaughtered every day in Sudan?

i think youre talking about the lives lost vs how big a story it is

is an american life worth more than a sudanese life of course not...is something that has never happened before a bigger story than something that happens every day...yes by a mile

[ice grillin you]

these people certainly dont think its a big deal....


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