Va. Tech tragedy in the news

Watching MSNBC and CNN on the horrible shooting today at Virginia Tech. The cable networks are tossing anything they can find on the shooting, no matter how tangential, onto the screen, hoping to stay ahead of a story that no one seems to understand just yet. This has led to some questionable assertions and speculation — MSNBC had a psychologist/lawyer on who outlined what he believed would be the background, both biographical and psychological, of a man that has not been named.

It seem incredibly irresponsible to speculate like this — better to just report what we know as fact, offer comment from those students who wish to speak and go from there.

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Hank Kalet is a poet and freelance journalist. He is the economic needs reporter for NJ Spotlight, teaches journalism at Rutgers University and writing at Middlesex County College and Brookdale Community College. He writes a semi-monthly column for the Progressive Populist. He is a lifelong fan of the New York Mets and New York Knicks, drinks too much coffee and attends as many Bruce Springsteen concerts as his meager finances will allow. He lives in South Brunswick with his wife Annie. View all posts by hankkalet