Editor and Publisher‘s website discusses the Roanoke Times‘ “blog-style” coverage of today’s Virginia Tech shootings. As “the closest daily paper to the Virginia Tech campus,” Editor and Publisher reports, the Times “has been covering the shooting … on its Web site with updates to a blog-style story, with the first posted at 10:17 a.m.
“The Roanoke paper also provided photographs that the Associated Press moved nationally. One, showing police carrying injured students out of a building, appeared on the top of The New York Times site early this afternoon.”
Update: Students respond to Virginia Tech shootings on Facebook.
A Facebook group apparently unrelated to the shootings called “I Survived VA Tech 2006-2007” has somber new meaning. The group lists 19 incidents the school has endured over the past year, including the August 2006 capture of William Morva, an escaped inmate who was accused of killing a police offer and a security guard and was at large in the campus area. That incident prompted the shutdown and evacuation of Virginia Tech, according to roanoke.com.
A group receiving numerous wall posts is “William Morva Should Get the Chair.” Created by a Virginia Tech student, the group’s description, – “Although we did get to miss some classes he sucks” – is drawing ire from some people.
Hat tip: Mindy.
Andrew Careaga 