Time for a Collective Time Out

It is really awful what happened yesterday at Virginia Tech. I think we, and especially the news media, need a collective time out. You see, whenever something like this happens, journalists go into a feeding frenzy that just proves over and over what idiots they are. They ask the same questions over and over, to which there are no answers. Not yet at least. So let’s take a time out for a few days. Let the police do their job, quit second guessing the university administration, who though unfortunate lack of clairvoyance, were unable to predict that a person run amok would take a two hour break from his rampage. And if anyone wants to tell the news media how they feel, let them seek out the reporters . I am sure they are easy to find.

At the same time we need to put this in perspective. 33 people is a very small number of deaths when you consider how many people are dieing every day in Iraq, Darfur, Zimbabwe, and even the United States from violence.

Why does the news media tend to fixate on these sorts of events? Well let’s put it this way, they don’t suspend their adverts during their coverage. So it is just another form of manipulation.

Let’s take a time out. Turn off your TV, put the tragedy in perspective, and for gosh sakes quit calling this sort of thing a spree! Journalists are !&*@! glorified English majors for Pete’s sake. They should know the definition of a spree.