Quote Originally Posted by lizbud
I've had this nagging feeling the last few days about the coverage of
the Blacksburg shooting of the students & teachers. I felt it has gone a
little overboard & intruding on people going through a horrific time. Do you
really think they go to far?
Liz, my husband and I were just discussing this the other day. I am always amazed when someone has suffered a tremendous, gut-wrenching loss and some interviewer gets them on camera and asks questions such as "how did you feel when you got the news?" "what will you remember about your loved one?" How idiotic are these questions? What would anyone feel? Do we really need to ask? I know stations are always trying to get *The Big Story* but some of these interviews make me sick. My husband said he doesn't want to listen to any of this any more. The facts are out there and there is nothing we can do to turn back the clock. We can pray for the friends and families of the victims and those who are healing from their wounds but there is not much else that we can do.

I saw a forensic psychiatrist on TV this morning (I think it was Good Morning America) and he was very upset that the videos of the gunman are all over the TV no matter where you look. Why bathe everyone's minds in this stuff? We wonder why so many people are depressed nowadays. Just take a look at the media and the way we are fed all of the bad parts of a story over and over again.