VA Tech To Media: Get Out Of Here!

Three cheers for the Student Government at Virginia Tech. They demanded that the news media leave the campus by this morning. In order to get back to school and try to put the tragedy behind them, they told the reporters to get out and give students the respect they deserve. Although the story is extremely newsworthy, the time has come for the cameras to disappear and for the media to move on as well. The tragedy last week was horrific to say the least but to dwell on it and obsess over every little thing that Seung-Hui Cho did is getting ridiculous.

Of course the authorities in Virginia need to finish their investigations. The legislators need to fix gun laws that allowed Cho to commit his crimes. The students need to grieve. The parents need to mourn. The traditional media needs to move on. There is too much news out there that goes unreported. It is typically the big stuff that concerns Congress, the President and of course the war in Iraq. Hundreds of people were killed in the Middle East last week and Bush's latest failed policy needs to be examined by people outside the blogosphere.