The horror that took place at Virginia Tech is still unmanageable, even though the videotape and eye-witness accounts have left little to the imagination.
Seth Greenberg, VT's basketball coach, whom I've known since his Long Beach State days, offered some hope when he said, "Probably the most encouraging thing to me today is hearing students being interviewed say, 'This is my university.' This is a special place. We're going to help rebuild the spirit of Virginia Tech. To me that's important."
There's already a lot of second guessing taking place. I know it's the nature of the media to jump on the most troubling angles, but I see little value in rushing to judgment. This week should be about the victims. There will plenty of time to conduct a thorough investigation and figure what lessons might be learned from this tragedy.
I am pretty underwhelmed by the media coverage. It wasn't enough for CNN's Situation Room to show the video that captured sounds of innocent professors and students being massacred. The Situation Room added a "shots heard" counter, which made it hard to distinguish a national tragedy from a violent video game.
Time media critic James Poniewozik on the Situation Room's coverage
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