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In reply to the discussion: UPDATED :((( Duer lapislzi's coworker has lost a son in the shooting. Please send love. ))) [View all]rocktivity
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One day, I read an LBN on DU about a man who'd been run over by teenagers trying to escape from a shoplifting spree in a stolen car -- terrible, of course. But the next thing I know, I'm at a DU thread started by someone who knew the victim. It added an entirely new dimension to the meaning of "fleshing out" a news story.
More recently, America's Most Wanted did a story about a young woman at a local TV station who'd been murdered. There was a tape of the anchorwoman tearfully praising the victim and asking for help with the police investigation while the anchorman just sat there, far too chocked up to say anything at all. And these were the professionals -- after the commercial break, they probably just went on to the latest reports on the Gulf War.
Oh, and did I mention that my sister is a middle school principal?
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