so here i sit - watching the VT story unfold. i’m watching the coverage on CNN. i’m watching my newly acquired twitters popping up in my IM. Andy Carvin (npr) and Jim Long (nbc) firing away new information every couple of minutes. cnn i-report has been playing video from Jamal Albarghouti a VT Student (now i-reporter) all morning. they keep reporting that it’s had over 120,000 hits since they first threw it up on the web. i’m watching this from so many angles. i need to at some point after the fact throw up a timeline of how i took all of this in. jim reported 30 deaths an hour ago. now we’re looking at 32 or more. talk of the nation has a rolling blog pointing to CollegeMedia.com which “includes a timeline of events on the campus, and a graphic that shows the shootings locations.” so i’m not sure what to take away from all of this - except that i’ve got so many ways of taking it all that it’s almost overwhelming. i’m on the inside-looking out, and at the sametime on the outside looking in. the power is in our hands to report from anywhere - this is the new media - and once i throw it all together - i feel like i might be able to come to some kind of truth about the whole thing. more late…i’ve more reading/watching to do.
