'So, What's the Mood on Campus?'

This is a very interesting column from Dan Radmacher, a Virginia-based writer, that asks some of the same questions we were thinking about in class about the quality of media coverage of the Virginia Tech tragedy.

How'd They Do?

Writing an opinion piece in the Los Angeles Times, media critic Tim Rutten says the media by and large did a good job in covering the Virginia Tech tragedy.

He writes:

Taken as a whole, the news media did a thorough, competent and humane job of
covering the massacre at Virginia Tech, particularly over the story's first 24
hours, when facts were most in demand and hardest to come by.

Today in class, we will look at the coverage from a more student-centric point of view.