The one thing I'm noticing, unless I'm missing something, the media coverage of the school...

[NNadir]

...shooting seems to be focusing on the victims. I don't know the murderers name and I don't want to know it.

I hear about the children, their families, the teachers, all at the edge of weeping, but nothing about the creature who caused this pain.

Our media is crude entertainment; the days of "news" have long since passed, but perhaps, just perhaps, it will find, at long last, some shred of decency that is finally, perhaps, emerging from that nightmare that we once called a "press."

I don't know this is true, but it's what I've observed in the little bit I have seen.

[Karadeniz]

1. Initially there was a lot of news about the shooter. However, I think it's network policy to not

give a murderer the attention he wanted.

[SoCalDavidS]

3. They'll All Say That They Were Following Orders

Whenever I hear it brought up on TV, that's what everybody says. They have to follow orders. Think Jack Nicholson in "A Few Good Men."

[brush]

4. The policy of releasing the names of the killers...

has been in place for a few years now. It's a good thing as copycats won't get the idea that they will get nationwide notoriety if they also committed a mass killing.