I agree but that will not change anytime soon. The media seems obsessed with not only telling us the story but they even assign blame immediately after the event.
Fox news had reporters calling for the heads of the university President and police chief immediately after the story broke. It was absurd! They wanted to know why a huge college campus with 20,000 people going and coming was not locked down as if it were an elementary school or something.
The media is a big part of the problem today. They need to do more reporting and a little less analysis disguised as reporting.
Well, actually, they’re right to want the heads of the uni’s president and police chief - not for their handling of the incident, but for their stubborn and vehement resistance to last year’s CCW-on-campus bill.
“Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker was happy to hear the bill was defeated. ‘I’m sure the university community is appreciative of the General Assembly’s actions because this will help parents, students, faculty and visitors feel safe on our campus.’”
The university, and the administration thereof, rightfully deserve to be sued nine ways to Sunday, and the administrators and faculty who opposed the bill should be fired.
The reason they are fixated with assessing the blame is that they know full well that they are as much or more to blame than anyone else because of the publicity they give these nuts. They begin blaming others because they want to distract attention from their own complicity.
It was interesting though that I saw Brian Williams on NBC after they released the video this guy made. It was probably the first time I’ve watched NBC in 15 years.
He actually seemed embarrassed by the fact that the media was playing into this guy’s hands by airing the video, which surprised me. But not embarrassed enough to withhold it.