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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…

Tags: alternative media, blog, cho, commentary, information fragmentation, mainstream media, media

Tragedy at Virginia Tech

Monday, April 16, 2007

As I wrapped up my afternoon course today, my students informed me of the 31 deaths at Virginia Tech today. It was the first I heard of it and so I immediately looked to the news and am now glued to the press conference…

Tags: blog, commentary

Bowing Down to Our Own Violence

Media Beat (4/19/07)

By Norman Solomon

Many days after the mass killings at Virginia Tech, grisly stories about the tragedy still dominated front pages and cable television. News of carnage on a vastly larger scale -- the war in Iraq -- ebbs…

Tags: commentary, iraq, media, violence, war

Message on Safety and Security

(This message was distributed to all faculty, staff and students April 27, 2007.)

In the days following the Virginia Tech tragedy, our solidarity with and sympathy for the faculty, staff, students and families affected by the loss of lives on…

Tags: safety, saskatchewan, security, university, university of saskatchewan

Campus mourns the lives that were lost

The university community gathered in remembrance of the violence at Virginia Polytechnical University in a candle vigil last Thursday.

Faculty, staff and students from Hamline's various colleges were all present. Over 120 people were in…

Tags: hamline, minneapolis, minnesota, oracle, university

Thinking about Virginia Tech

I'd been thinking about starting this blog up again for a few weeks now. I didn't think I'd have something so tragic to write about.

Probably it goes without saying that my thoughts and best wishes go out to the students, faculty, and…

Tags: alumni, blog, reaction

Virginia Tech, Imus and Curve Balls

[Philosophical Musing on Media Culture]

By Carl Davidson

20 Apr 2007

The universe throws curve balls at us, now and then.

It seems to want to wake us up, and teach us lessons in impermanence and interconnectedness.

Take the killings at…

Tags: blog, cho, commentary, imus, media

Why Virginia Tech killings happened

EDITORIAL

Published Apr 17, 2007 11:36 PM

Yet another rampage has occurred at a school, this time leaving 33 people dead at Virginia Techâ€”the worst such incident ever at a U.S. college campus.

The news media seem stunned and surprised, yet…

Tags: capitalism, editorial, violence, war

Librescu Day

By Salah Obeid
Online Journal Contributing Writer

Jun 8, 2007, 00:27

There isn't room enough on the calendar to honor every American hero, but Aug. 16, the birthday of one such hero, is a day teachers and others who cherish education…

Tags: censorship, commentary, education, freedom, history, librescu

US churches call for gun control following university shootings

News Brief

By staff writers
17 Apr 2007

Expressing the sorrow of many Christians in the US at yesterday's killings in Virginia, the General Secretary of the National Council of Churches USA (NCC USA) has also renewed the NCC's call for…

Tags: churches, gun control, national council of churches, ncc