A Quick Observation

Tonight there was yet another campus shooting, resulting in six deaths including the shooter's.

I'd rather not dwell on this event at all, but I could not help but ponder the lack of coverage this event received in comparison to Virginia Tech. I heard a blurb about it on the radio, turned on the TV, flipped through channels, and saw... McCain... Ann Coulter ... Huckabee ... Al Sharpton. The scroller gave me one sentence about what happened, and I finally found brief coverage of it on a local news station.

I really have no idea how to judge any of this. Non-stop coverage of a school shooting is totally inappropriate, but then I was also offended that this wasn't receiving more coverage. What is the right amount of coverage for such a thing? Should it even be covered by national news? Should I be glad that this got less coverage, or should I be offended that Ann Coulter's wisdom got ten times more TV time than a horrific current event?

And having heard Ann Coulter and Al Sharpton speak within one minute of one another, and then having heard details on another copy-cat shooting -- not to mention having earlier tonight heard a story on Congo's current disaster -- all this must do horrible things to the mind. Watching all those contrasting stories, back and forth, with commercial breaks, must either make one numb to reality -- with the other option being embracing it emotionally and intellectually and becoming bipolar.

Though I suppose we can stand all things, under the right circumstances.