yes or no. and why? thanks
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/virginia_tech
2007-08-20 06:24:08 · 5 answers · asked by steven25t 7 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Jah: yes, and i bet all media will jump on it bunch of hungry dogs
2007-08-20 06:31:46 · update #1
Why should it make me paranoid?
As for the media, ABC was all over VA Tech this morning because of the start of the school year and the media loves to revisit stories that they think will increase their ratings. Reporting the gas leak was almost an afterthought...I'm sure the VA Tech rehash story was scheduled long before the gas leak.
2007-08-20 06:55:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
That was an off campus incident, and of course students live in those apartments. It was sad and I hope the 5 girls still in the hospital are fine. This is just another incident to add to the year that Blacksburg and Virginia Tech have had. Last August we had an armed gunman kill a hospital security guard and then hide on a popular walking trail and kill a county deputy. During the winter a man who had taught in Blacksburg many years confessed that he had molested children the whole time he taught. Then the April 16 shootings occured, and now the carbon monoxide incident. It is tragic, but the national media wouldn't have broadcast it. They were already in town for the first day of classes, and when they heard about this, they threw it in their story as well. Carbon monoxide detectors are not mandatory in apartment buildings in Blacksburg, but they are going to go to town council to try to make them mandatory after this. Does it make me paranoid? I live in a Blacksburg apartment, and I went out and bought a carbon monoxide detector, as did many others. If anything, it made everyone aware of how dangerous it can be.
2007-08-21 15:59:19 · answer #2 · answered by .. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A gas leak can happen anywhere. Carbon monoxide poisoning kills people, sometimes entire families, all the time. I think its very sad and very scary, that's why I have a carbon monoxide detector plugged into my wall. They only cost about $25 and are worth every penny.
What really is discouraging is seeing how the media is going to put Virginia Tech on the news for things that normally they would totally ignore. (Not the good stuff, mind you. Only the bad/scary/horrifying things.) All for the sole purpose of ratings, so they can charge more for commercial time. I love my Alma mater and hate seeing the school constantly paraded across the screen for someone else's gain.
2007-08-20 13:49:46 · answer #3 · answered by stormydogblue 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Everything that happens there is going to be blown out of proportion. It wouldn't have gotten the attention it did, if not for the shooting.
People take themselves out of the gene pool every year by BBQing in the house and that barely makes page three.
Its sensationalism.
I still hope they'll be OK
2007-08-20 14:09:36 · answer #4 · answered by The Forgotten 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
that accident is a internal problem that should be dealt with behind those walls. it doesn't affect the rest of us like the massacre did
i hope those students get a discount off of tuition
2007-08-20 13:30:33 · answer #5 · answered by Random Black Woman 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋