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Wall-to-Wall VT
There are always a trio of TVs running next to the information desk in Squires, tuned to three different news channels. All three were reporting on Virginia Tech.
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Tags: media, student squires center
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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Original source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/waldoj/463569272/in/set-72157600088262276/
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Tags: inn, media, virginia tech inn
Media Coverage of VT Tragedy Irresponsible
By Tammesia Green
Following the massacre that occurred at Virginia Tech University on April 16, many have come to question their own safety at universities across the country. The profile of a school shooter, once narrowed to a lonely white…
Following the massacre that occurred at Virginia Tech University on April 16, many have come to question their own safety at universities across the country. The profile of a school shooter, once narrowed to a lonely white…
What May Come: Asian Americans and the Virginia Tech Shootings
By Tamara K. Nopper | 04.19.2007
April 17, 2007
Like many, I was glued to the television news yesterday, keeping updated about the horrific shootings at Virginia Tech University. I was trying to deal with my own disgust and sadness, especially…
April 17, 2007
Like many, I was glued to the television news yesterday, keeping updated about the horrific shootings at Virginia Tech University. I was trying to deal with my own disgust and sadness, especially…
EDITORIAL - Media exploits killer's manifesto
By: STAFF EDITORIAL
Posted: 4/20/07
Just days after the tragic shooting at Virginia Tech, NBC made the inappropriate decision to release videos of killer Cho Seung-Hui angrily ranting about the reasoning behind his crimes.
Cho had sent a…
Posted: 4/20/07
Just days after the tragic shooting at Virginia Tech, NBC made the inappropriate decision to release videos of killer Cho Seung-Hui angrily ranting about the reasoning behind his crimes.
Cho had sent a…
Tags: media, media criticism , media response, pitt university
When tragedy is for sale, it isn’t tragic enough
Issue Date:Tuesday April 17, 2007
Section: Editorial Section
Ry Rivard, City Editor
By the end of the Monday it was obvious that the media had begun selling the day's horrors at Virginia Tech. No matter the gravity or magnitude of a…
Section: Editorial Section
Ry Rivard, City Editor
By the end of the Monday it was obvious that the media had begun selling the day's horrors at Virginia Tech. No matter the gravity or magnitude of a…
Tags: commentators, concealed handgun laws, drama, media, politics, wvu
RTE Morning Ireland Radio Show Clip
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
Under the glare
A student is interviewed by the media. Burruss Hall in background.
Photo by Roger Gupta.
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Photo by Roger Gupta.
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Original Source:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/spector1/467337804/in/set-72157600104116028/
Tags: burruss hall, interviews, media, news cameras
The Tangled Thicket of Cho seung-hui, Don Imus, YouTube and American Idol
April 21st, 2007
Cho seung-hui, the Rutgers University women's basketball team, the students and Virginia Tech all form a tangled thicket nourished by the American media, overgrown with too many words, too many pictures and too many answers to…
Cho seung-hui, the Rutgers University women's basketball team, the students and Virginia Tech all form a tangled thicket nourished by the American media, overgrown with too many words, too many pictures and too many answers to…
Virginia Tech Redux: Did the Old Media Lose it in Blacksburg?
April 18th, 2007
As the words continue to flow along with the tears after the deaths at Virginia Tech, one important observation rises above the ruins: the incident represented a triumph for what the pundits term the New Media over the Old. The keys…
As the words continue to flow along with the tears after the deaths at Virginia Tech, one important observation rises above the ruins: the incident represented a triumph for what the pundits term the New Media over the Old. The keys…
Tags: blog, citizen, commentary, journalism, journalists, media, new media, old media
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…
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
too much coverage of the Virginia Tech tragedy
April 19, 2007
The amount of coverage has been staggering--dozens of stories per day in the top national newspapers, nightly broadcast news programs that are lengthened by half an hour, 24-hour repetitions of the same information on cable news,…
The amount of coverage has been staggering--dozens of stories per day in the top national newspapers, nightly broadcast news programs that are lengthened by half an hour, 24-hour repetitions of the same information on cable news,…
Tags: blog, commentary, media
Media Warning
These warnings are posted everywhere on campus buildings to ward off the media from attending class when the students returned.
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Original source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/paultrumble/468776222/
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Tags: media, media warning
[Untitled]
An individual mourns and pays respect to the victims at one of the memorial sites on the drill field.
Photo Courtesy of Patrick Donohoe
Photo Courtesy of Patrick Donohoe
Tags: drill field, media, memorial, mourning
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,…
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