Can We Please Just Shut Up and Mourn?

Thank you so much for posting this article. Our media, indeed our world, is out of control. We do need reminding to not get caught up in the "feeding frenzy." I especially appreciate the cited Biblical references to the same types of responses people had even 2000 years ago. Let's all just continue to pray for healing in the lives of the VA Tech families and for healing in the hearts of the people of this country.

I actually said the exact same words last night to a friend. This article is right on target. We are such a critical world now that before all the facts are in, the images have already been beamed all over the earth and we have been fed an editorialized version of what has happened (usually with the reporters inbuilt slant on what could have been done better, who was at fault, why it happened, etc) that our version is colored even before we know what happened.
When this first happened our first response (and, no, sadly, not mine either) should be to hit our knees, not hit the chanclor, Dean, school admin.
The incessent pictures, and arm chair quarterbacking can not be good for the families either. They turn on the TV for a few seconds of excape from the horror they are going through and there it is again with another recap, retelling, and more conjector on what happened. All these people (as well as the public) need to mourn not rehash.

I am so moved by this article...you have given words to the thoughts I have had for the last 2 days while trying to remain afloat in the flood of media coverage about this horror. Copies of this should be sent to every news outlet in the country!