Shooting Coverage

There has been so much coverage on the shootings at Northern Illinois University since February 14th, when it happened. Six people were killed. Five of them were students, and the shooter killed himself after the hideous act he put forward. There are a couple of things that I just don't get. I don't get how someone could create an act so destructive and get joy out of it. Second, I don't get why there is SOOO much coverage over it.

I think that because of the media coverage over the shootings, people with mental problems are thinking "hey, I'm depressed too, maybe I could get some attention just like he (the shooter) did." These students had so much going for them, and that's worth talking about, but with all the coverage over the shooter and how he had stopped taking his medicine, and was a 'normal person' is too much coverage. Talk about the students, not the shooter. Don't give praise to someone for shooting five students and call him NORMAL. That is anything but NORMAL. Last week when I was watching the news, there were two threats in two different high schools, in the same day. This was just following the NIU shootings.

I looked on the New York Times website, and there were 11 articles over this incident by the 15th, just the day after it had happened. Now, I'm not saying that it's not newsworthy- because I completely think it is, but, I'm maybe proposing that doesn't get as much coverage. I think it's worth trying, for the sake of students across the country.