One tough Thursday...
Apr. 19th, 2007 10:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alexpgpThe circus continues.
I went to do my Thursday morning telecon at JSC and after entering Building 30, passed by a television showing the whole multimedia program from by the VT mass murderer, on - of course - a news show. I found the entire setting disgusting, and though I only stopped for about 30 seconds or so, I felt as if a new low had been plumbed by the broadcast media.
I've got a question. There was a professor at VT, a 76-year-old Israeli who survived the Holocaust, Liviu Librescu, who was killed shielding his students from the killer. How much coverage has he gotten? If you're going to focus on some aspect of such a tragedy, why not focus on someone who tried to help?
There also seems to be some kind of mad rush on to see who can best explain who or what is "really" responsible for the mass murder at VT. I wouldn't be surprised if the name of the killer is dropped from such a list, assuming it ever makes it onto the list in the first place.
Of course, there is nothing new under the sun, and you can take that as you like it. It turns out that - for what it's worth - the VT bloodbath was not the worst atrocity committed against students at a school (according to a blog post by raincoaster, the worst U.S. school massacre took place in Bath, Michigan, in 1928).
* * * The job due tomorrow still has 1200 words left, along with keying of a bunch of figures. My deadline is noon, so I plan to get up early to polish off the job. The bag for the day is just over 3800 source words, plus one telecon.
Cheers...
I went to do my Thursday morning telecon at JSC and after entering Building 30, passed by a television showing the whole multimedia program from by the VT mass murderer, on - of course - a news show. I found the entire setting disgusting, and though I only stopped for about 30 seconds or so, I felt as if a new low had been plumbed by the broadcast media.
I've got a question. There was a professor at VT, a 76-year-old Israeli who survived the Holocaust, Liviu Librescu, who was killed shielding his students from the killer. How much coverage has he gotten? If you're going to focus on some aspect of such a tragedy, why not focus on someone who tried to help?
There also seems to be some kind of mad rush on to see who can best explain who or what is "really" responsible for the mass murder at VT. I wouldn't be surprised if the name of the killer is dropped from such a list, assuming it ever makes it onto the list in the first place.
Of course, there is nothing new under the sun, and you can take that as you like it. It turns out that - for what it's worth - the VT bloodbath was not the worst atrocity committed against students at a school (according to a blog post by raincoaster, the worst U.S. school massacre took place in Bath, Michigan, in 1928).
Cheers...
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Date: 2007-04-20 04:03 pm (UTC)True, although there's a typo, it was `927.
Point worth pondering during all of the debate we shall see over the next few weeks: the weapon of choice in Bath was explosives, and this was in an era where it was still literally possible to buy a machine gun in a hardware store.