Professional discussion of coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings

[93Devil]

http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-07-20-0228.html

BLACKSBURG -- Some of the deepest secrets about Seung-Hui Cho's killing rampage at Virginia Tech on April 16, 2007, may never be made public.

Disclosure of the essential facts of the tragedy in a public archive was a key part of a settlement last month with victims' families, reached after the university released thousands of pages of internal documents to their lawyers.

But a Richmond Times-Dispatch review of an estimated 20,000 pages of those documents, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request, found almost nothing about key issues the families wanted to be made public. Tech withheld from the newspaper some of the documents it released to the families.

Richmond TD writer tackling a very complicated topic, and I know it is a very hot topic still on this board.

I am glad, though, that people are still looking for answers, even if the answers might not want to be the ones you want to hear.

You will never do everything perfect in a situation like this shooting, but them withholding information does sit well with me.