Shooting at Va. Tech

Been a while since I've read a story that moved me to tears. Powerful stuff.

 

Call off the Pulitzer for next year. We have a winner.

 

I was waiting for this kind of story to come out and now that it has .... I feel bad for the writer(s) who had to compile this, but yet I thank them for giving us some insight into that bloody day.

I would say I hope they've got the Pulitzer locked up for this account, but that would be utterly useless.

I hope everyone involved (and, yes, this includes myself) finds peace through this whole god awful shitty mess and can take comfort that those who died are in a better place.

 

Wow. That's an incredible piece of storytelling. I just read that after watching the video that sick fuck sent into NBC. I'm quite shaken right now.

 

I haven't watched the video, but I just read the piece. Wow.

 

Movie guy is holding it with one hand.... Cho with two.

Big difference if you are making an argument that someone is mimicking a piece of art.

 

Fucking David Maraniss.

BTW, he also wrote biographies of Bill Clinton, Vince Lombardi and Roberto Clemente.

This'll be (likely) Pulitzer No. 2 for him.

Also - this is why print will always have a place in comparison to the sound bite urgency of television news. I'd seen these guys interviewed before. Nothing more than, "He was really quiet. Kind of weird."

Without the need to feed the beast with the camera rolling on you at that moment, you can push for this kind of stuff. "Well did you see him that morning? Were you tired?" Etc., etc., etc.

 

I know this.

There is a quarterback with the Falcons, mentioned in that article, who could help his crippled reputation immensely.

 

Not trying to make a joke here but has Rev. Sun Myung Moon had any comment about what happened?

 

In case you aren't aware, that is a textbook example of narrative storytelling in the Washington Post.

What makes it powerful is that is requires a lot of reporting and details yet isn't bogged down with direct quotes and attribution from officials.

It also is chronological.

It's an extremely powerful way to tell certain stories. Writers really should try to do that whenever it is possible.

 

I thought he died a few years ago, or am I wrong?

 

Absolutely heart wrenching. I stopped and then started reading that article about four times. I can't even imagine the terror that those kids (yes, they were kids to me) went through when the shooting started, but this article made me experience 1/100000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000th of it and it was enough to make my stomach hurt. People who bring up the "why didn't they do anything" line should read this.