The Talk of the Town

So I read this article awhile ago, and at first I didn't really understand what it was about at first and I felt pretty stupid once I picked it up. One of the things that I picked up about this article was that even though we all knew what this was about the author's never directly said it was about Virginia Tech and 9/11. In the first few sentences I underline one part that said "why it happens over and over again in America." I thought this was particularly interesting, because I've never realized it much before but you really don't hear much about other countries having disasters like Virginia Tech and 9/11, even if they do happen as much as America they're never taken over by the media like they are in America. One other part I circled in this article was the paragraph about Cho Seung-Hui, the shooter at Virginia Tech. I know that what happened there was terrible and all those students shouldn't have died, but I do feel bad for Cho's parents and family. Cho Seung-Hui was part of the media for awhile after the shooting and then his family must have become part of it too, so I do feel bad for them because the American media does go over the top sometimes, like making Cho's family the villain too because he was their son. Overall though I didn't think this article was too bad, it kept my attention and opened me up to different things I never would have thought of