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[malrooskee]

I just want to say that while I am deeply disturbed upon hearing the news of the Virginia Tech tragedy, does anybody else feel that non-stop media coverage of this terrible massacre is pretty revealing of how when 30 of our students die we stop everything on television to broadcast it, but when hundreds of people die every day for an unjustified,

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[agentgabs]

Its because something like this happened SOOO close to home, we can identify with the students and the teachers. We can picture ourselves hiding in our dorms or hiding in our classrooms wondering if the Killer is gone or if our friends are alive more than we can imagine ourselves on the "Battlefield" of war.
That is why i think the media will cover something like this on a very large basis, where the bombard us with images and recall other shootings like Columbine so that we remember and so that we are aware.

But for Nicole Smith and Imus...yeah i don't have an explanation for that. It pisses me off really. But this is not the first time the news has done that too us, shall we recall the Micheal Jackson Trial, September 11th, OJ Simpson, Clinton getting Impeached?
this will always happen, and we'll never get the whole story on the rest of the world, of all the people dying out there everyday, and they will continue dying and no one will ever get a chance to do anything to really make a difference in stopping it. A terrible point of view, yest i know, but its the truth.
What we have control of is what happens in our life in our country.
but to look at what happened at VT and say you are "ashamed of being an American" for the media coverage of it? then no, its not justified.
Reformation starts at home, not overseas.
I agree that the war is a "criminal invasion" as you put it, but to compare that to VT? no.
Those Soldiers sign up to goto war, they signed up and they knew that the out come might be their death.
I do not recall signing some paper saying that by going to college i might suffer the same fate. No does and no one has.
War and a random Mass killing by some psycho...not the same.

I hope you can put aside your discontent with the Media and realize that they are just trying to bring information and in a way comfort to America. Once again we've lost our sense of innocence.

[malrooskee]

Hey, thanks for all the commentary, but I feel as though you might have misunderstood what I was saying by being ashamed of being an American. I think it was a little too far off for me to go back and explain what I meant by that and that would take quite a lengthy explanation, so I'll just say that I hope you can re-read my post and understand that it's after stating that we are part of an unjustified invasion that nobody is paying any attention to because it's not affecting us directly that it shames me to be an American sometimes. I am NOT, in any way, ashamed of being American simply because the VT tragedy is getting a lot of attention. It deserves all of it, I'm just pointing out that when hundreds of people are dying every day in Iraq because of our invasion, we pay little or no attention to it.

[malrooskee]

And more importantly, I do not compare the deaths of the soldiers to the deaths of the students. The soldiers signed up for war (whether they're there with justification is again, another story), I'm talking about the Iraqi CIVILIANS who are dying in the hundreds every day. The total death told for soldiers has yet to exceed 4,000; whereas the death toll for Iraqi civilians has reached the 100,000's (perhaps much more, I just know it's at least 100,000).

[agentgabs]

yeah i figured what you meant half way through my rant.
I got a little carried away.
i was just pissed off by all the stupid comments i kept hearing throughout the day here at school, on the news and on-line.

but i get what you're trying to say. (still irks me about the pointless news that gets covered...)