The First Virginia Tech Cartoons were Terrible
 

How is this, a member of the media in his own blog, saying how poor the media's responce to this was.
APRIL 20, 2007
The First Virginia Tech Cartoons were Terrible
When a lunatic killed 32 people at Virginia Tech University earlier this week I knew what to expect from political cartoonists, who don't react well to tragedy. Some of the cartoons seemed insensitive, as today's generation of jokesters struggled to respond to a story with no lighter side.
http://cagle.com/news/BLOG/main.asp

And some of the good, the bad, and the ugly:
http://cagle.com/news/VirginiaTechShootings/

I just looked through those and about half of those were tasteless. Don't cartoonists realize that families are grieving? It's called common courteousy!

Isn't there a stigma against mental illness in pretty much all cultures?

some are worse than others.

That is just what the owner of the website said in his blog.:confused:

Horrifying. I understand the school has set up funds to assist victims and their families. I hope that the survivors are able to get the best counseling possible to help them cope. How can they ever feel safe again? :(

Why is this guy writing about all that and complaining, yet he posts them on his website? Hypocrisy.

Exactly. I could go on and on about problems in my community.

On an unrelated note, I just found out minutes ago I'm distantly related to Coach Beamer but my source didn't tell me how, lol.

Perhaps.
But he is also "reporting" was has been already drawn and seen around the country.
And doing his own Op-Ed story.

One of the reason I find his site so interesting is that one can see just what others are seeing reported, or rather drawn, around the country and the world.

If I really tried, I could get about 6-8 local papers in my area on any given day but that is not something I would ever do.

I met him several years ago. He seemed genuinely nice. I heard that following last week's tragedy, he visited hospitalized victims as well as some of the families of students who were killed. From what I gather, he is extremely down to earth and just an all-round good person. I've wondered what the first football game is going to be like next season. The baseball game last week was evidently quite a healing time for everyone involved.

Yesterday I found out that my ex was really good friends with one of the victims. I felt really bad-my ex hates me and doesn't talk to me anymore, but that doesn't stop me from caring.

SAE Brother Helps Save Lives in Shooting:
 

SAE in the News
<H2>Member Helps Save Lives in Shooting:</H2>from CNN.com

BLACKSBURG, Virginia (CNN) -- Monday's toll inside Virginia Tech's Norris Hall might have included 11 more students had it not been for a long, rectangular table and a quick-thinking senior who used it to deflect the rampage of his fellow classmate.
http://www.sae.net/index.asp?r=newsr...=110&art_cat=3


Quick-thinking student credited with saving lives

POSTED: 4:59 p.m. EDT, April 23, 2007

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/17/vte...all/index.html

Heroes of the Virginia Tech massacre

POSTED: 6:44 p.m. EDT, April 23, 2007


http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/23/vat...oes/index.html

Refusing to cower, he saved lives

http://www.philly.com/dailynews/loca...ved_lives.html

Honoring the heroes
Alexander R. Cohen, Opinion Columnist

http://www.cavalierdaily.com/CVArtic...30246&pid=1585

Big media gives VT killer infamy he desired
http://www.purdueexponent.org/?modul...&story_id=5615

Virginia Tech rampage lasted just nine minutes
 

This seems to answer several questions; some of which were asked with in this thread:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Seung-Hui Cho took just nine minutes to fire more than 170 rounds of ammunition as he gunned down dozens of his fellow students and staff at Virginia Tech last week, police said on Wednesday.
Police provided new details about how Cho killed 30 other people at Norris Hall on April 16, the deadliest such massacre in modern U.S. history, before killing himself as police raced up the stairs of the classroom building.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNe...5?feedType=RSS