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Posted on 10/01/2015 12:51:36 PM PDT by Torcert
As Twitchy told you, there’s been a mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon. According to preliminary reports, as many as 15 people were killed.
What those affected need right now are prayers and support. But media vultures have other ideas: Matthew Haag@matthewhaag
A student tweets about shooting at her Oregon community college, and TV producers ask if she can call them right now
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I looked at her tweets - I think she works in the office. Tweeting is second-nature to many of these people. One minute she is tweeting about a birthday cake (hers?), and the next minute something like:
OMG - someone shooting.
Kids running everywhere!
Then later:
I’m fine. Physically. On a bus being evacuated.
Investigators are examining social media postings made by a man, thought to be in his late 20s, who they believe is the suspect, said a source with knowledge of the investigation.
Josh Earnest sez Obama has been candid about his frustration.
This sort of leadership doesn’t grow on trees, you know.
Tweets are the most effective and instantaneous way of getting a message out.
although the media probably found out about the shooting not through twitter but by listening to police radio chatter, the next step for them to find first-hand accounts is not facebook, but twitter, which is open for everyone to see.
Because that’s what the “children” do these days.
Yes, I can’t understand why someone bent on mass murder wouldn’t be stopped by a sign....
Didn’t he? know that it was against the rules? /s
Exactly. The media are not “vultures” for seeking out someone who has already been voluntarily sending out information to large numbers of people.
There are many reasons they are vultures, but that is not one of them.
I don’t know if the right kind of laws exist to prosecute people who either encouraged the shooter online or did not report his plans, especially as they are probably all in other jurisdictions.
“Yes, I can’t understand why someone bent on mass murder wouldn’t be stopped by a sign....
Didn’t he? know that it was against the rules? /s”
I will be dollars to doughnut holes the shooter was an Obama voter.
I also bet that most of those killed were leftest fools.
“Go for it, Mohammed! They’re all just filthy kaffirs! Paradise awaits you, O blessed shahid!”
Get the widow on the set
I would wager about in about 3 - 4 hours or so - time enough for the news to dissipate and in time for the evening news.
Exactly!!!
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It’s already happened: “In an address, TODAY”.
According to Shep Smith at FOX, the shooter was asking what religion they were. But Shep said that was beside the point. I think that he was not willing to say anything else about that is very telling!
Thank You!!
From what I have seen, that wasn’t the nature of the encouragement.
I stopped watching Shep years ago as everything he said made me want to puke.
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