On a day like today there really isn't a lot to say. I, along with the rest of the country I'm sure, are sending our thoughts and prayers to the victims and their families along with all the students and faculty at Virginia Tech.
The only thing that really surprised me, after learning more about how the media works, was how callous, certain parties reporting on the incident acted in the wake of this tragic, tragic event.
Flipping through the ongoing coverage of the events as the occurred today, I stopped on Fox News, which I shall forever refer to as Fox Opinion Channel, and heard a guest on the program railing against administration and the state of Virginia for "dropping the ball."
On Brit Hume's coverage of the incident Judge Andrew Napolitano railed against Tech administration for not locking down the campus and attacked the entire Commonwealth of Virginia for not allowing people on college campuses to carry concealed firearms. This, without any concrete evidence of who the shooter was, the motives, or any actual reports on how the events occurred.
While Napolitano was a guest and is allowed to voice his own opinion, there was no rebuttal to this outlandish and ill-understood claim. The fact that mere hours had passed and already the media vultures on Fox Opinion Channel along with the other cable news channels is a sobering reminder that people will use even tragedy to push their agendas.
I hope in the coming days and weeks our country as a unified whole will focus on the real issue here. Supporting those who have been affected by the most vile and disgraceful of all human action.
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