Browse Items · The April 16 Archive

Mention of shooter's ethnicity unnecessary

Apr 30 2007
Re: "CUPD Assesses Campus Safety," News, April 18

To the Editor:

Thank you for the article "CUPD Assesses Campus Safety." In some ways, it made me feel a little bit safer knowing about the heightened security. However, it made me…

Tags: cornell, ethnic identity, media

NBC Should Never Have Aired the Virginia Tech Video

By: Jack Myers / Jack Myers Think Tank (Blog)

May 07, 2007

The more I think and talk to people about NBC's handling of Cho Seung-Hui's videos following the tragedy at Virginia Tech, the more convinced I am the decision was mishandled…

Tags: blog, commentary, media

NBC, MySpace and V.T.

By Behzad Varamini
Apr 25 2007

Gain Through Loss

Hours after students cowered behind desks and played dead in hopes that Virginia Tech killer Cho Seung-Hui would spare their lives, minutes after the body count was made public and started to…

Tags: cornell, media, profit

News Coverage of the VA tech Shooting

Sunday, April 22, 2007

Topics like these are always hard to approach. For some, the event holds particular weight, either because of their relationship with the victims, with the assailant, with the location where it takes place, or because of the…

Tags: blog, commentary, media, news

News Worthiness

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Since releasing the excerpts from the package sent by Virginia Tech killer Cho Seung-Hui, NBC News has received more than just a little criticism. Indeed, this story is so big that every little nuance... anything remotely…

Tags: blog, cho, media, nbc, news, package

No More Media

One of the signs that went up on the buildings around campus shortly after Apr 16 directing the media to stay out of the campus buildings

Tags: campus, media

Notice to the Media (Sign)

Sign affixed to doors of Torgersen Hall. By the time that this photo was taken, virtually all buildings on campus had signs like this on all entrances. Photo taken Friday, April 20.

Tags: media, sign, torgersen

Post-Dedication Interview

After the intermediate memorial dedication ceremony, interviews such as this one were commonplace. But while there was clearly a media presence at this event, it was subdued in comparison to the immediate aftermath of April 16.

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Tags: dedication ceremony, Drillfield, intermediate memorial, interview, media, memorial dedication

Preparing for Media on April 16

Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:05:04 -0400
From: Unirel@vt.edu
To: Multiple recipients
Subject: Preparing for Media on April 16

March 2008

To the Students, Faculty, and Staff of Virginia Tech

As you can imagine, there remains…

Tags: anniversary, hincker, media, university relations

Provost Update August 17, 2007

Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 11:25:23 -0400
From: Provost@vt.edu
To: Multiple recipients
Subject: Provost Update August 17, 2007

August 17, 2007
Dear Faculty and Staff Colleagues:

You are probably noticing that the students are moving back to…

Tags: concert, concert for virginia tech, counseling, intermediate memorial, internal reviews, mcnamee, media, provost, security, vt-engage

Put grief on the front page

By: Anthony Galanos
Posted: 4/20/07

The media coverage of the tragedy at Virginia Tech is rewarding insanity and complicating grief. But there are 32 families, and an entire university who are grieving. Not sad, not upset, not disgruntled... but…

Tags: duke, grief, media

Re-Imaging Violence

Recorded Thursday, April 19 (24 MB MP3)
We've decided to scrap tonight's planned show (about language post-Imus) in favor of a show about the visual reverberations of the Virginia Tech shooting. Our central prod came from the trusty barthjg,…

Tags: media, mp3, open source, radio, show, technology, violence, visual

Reflections on Virginia Tech

By Billy McMorris
Apr 17 2007

John Manetta Once Told Me

In early modern Europe the infant mortality rate was astronomical. Crude medical practices led to a high casualty rate for mother and child alike. In many cases, new mothers would be…

Tags: cornell, gun control, media

RTE Morning Ireland Radio Show Clip

01 Kiersey, Morning Ireland, April 18.m4a

This is a clip on the Virginia Tech shooting from April 18, 2006. It ran on 'Morning Ireland' show on the Irish radio station RTE 1. It featured an interview between myself and Irish journalist Robert Shortt on the drillfield which took place…

Tags: candlelight vigil, international, kiersey, media, rte

Satellite Dishes

The parking lot of the convention center bristled with satellite dishes. Dozens, maybe hundreds, sprouted from the tops of the vans.

Original source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/waldoj/463569272/in/set-72157600088262276/

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Tags: inn, media, virginia tech inn

Satellite Trucks at the Virginia Tech Inn

Photo taken April 18, 2007.

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Original Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cipherswarm/1483116677/

Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic.

Tags: april 18, inn, media, satellite trucks

Seeking Healing

The media need our help to shift their focus from murderers and violence to the compassionate healing journeys of victims' families:

After the Virginia Tech tragedy, the president of the American Psychiatric Association, Pedro Ruiz, wrote an…

Tags: healing, media, memorial, peace, school violence

Still waiting for our victory

Observer Viewpoint
Issue date: 4/19/07 Section: Viewpoint

Anyone old enough to speak coherently at the time still remembers the moment, over forty years ago, when they heard about JFK's assassination. Our grandparents can tell us how they…

Tags: 9/11, facebook, jfk, media, notre dame, students abroad