Blacksburg and the idiocy of news stations
Blacksburg, Virginia Tech, and the nation suffered a terrible tragedy today. Unthinkable. Painful.
My only connection to Blacksburg is through my company's email hosting provider, Webmail.us and through a friend of my wife's who moved to Blacksburg to work there a few years ago.
A senseless tragedy has occured.
One of the reasons I don't watch the news is that senseless tragedies are played out on the news every day. I tire of watching it all unfold.
But today, wanting some additional information, we switched on one of the news stations (one of the cable stations).
They were analyzing what the administration could have done differently to avoid this tragedy. Seemingly pointing the finger at the administration, saying essentially that the administration had not acted swiftly enough to "close off the campus".
The administration was initally working on the information that it was something that happened in a dorm, and that the shooter was at large. They alerted the faculty and students, but didn't lock the campus down. Why? Well, probably because they thought that it was an isolated incident. Hindsight is almost always 20/20. I can guarantee you that the administration would lock the campus down now, given what they heard.
But blaming the administration after the fact, before all the facts have come forward and have been brought to light is utter lunacy. Those people who point the fingers at the administration should have the finger pointed at themselves and asked "Is this what we reallly need to do at this time? Point the finger at a community that is already suffering a horrific tragedy? Does this help them?"
I think that those folks who DO point the finger, when they ask themselves that question, they will answer NO, this does not help. It might help in the future after we've analyzed the situation, but right now, it does no one any good.
It is a senseless tragedy. Only God knows why it happened. News reporters do NOT know why it happened anymore than the rest of us.
Let VT and Blacksburg mourn before pointing fingers. May God have mercy on their souls and be with the familes and friends of those who have been lost.....
posted by Mike @ 10:20 PM
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1 Comments:
Mike, I suspect much of the finger-pointing stems from humanity's need to figure out quite often the unfigure-outable, to sort through the horrific in logical terms they can understand and relate to. Unfortunately, that means distracting from FEELING and the tragedy at hand. Most of us don't want to think about what it must have been like, what it could be like for us parents at any school this can happen to... it's too dark, ugly and scary and our minds shut down at going there. I'm doing it too.
The alternative blows my mind.
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