We Still Don't Know, News at 11

[forsyth]

So the shootings at Virginia Tech are all over the news. Like, ALL over every news. And I haven't been watching it. I don't have any direct connection to things, and there's not anything I can do related to anything, anyway. But it feels kinda weird to just be going about life, doing homework and reading the Internet. There's no point to sitting and listening to the news reports repeating over and over the nothing they know yet, either. I know that's what some people do, but that just seems like a recipe for bad to me.

I was going to try and make a philosophical point with this, I think, but I can't really. So here.

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[frustratedpilot]

Andy Rooney has said that our culture isn't as advanced as our technology, and in that I have to agree. Now, we can see absolutely everything that is happening in ONE PLACE in America, and know nothing about what's going on IN OUR HOMETOWNS. I know that the Knoxville press won't bother to cover Jefferson County events, unless they're bloody-gory-gruesome.

The press has its priorities completely out of whack. They have feeding frenzies every time something of this nature happens, with no respect for the feelings of the survivors or bystanders. Bah.