We're not all victims

Not everyone was connected to Virginia Tech, but you wouldn't know it by watching Americans.

April 20, 2007

FIVE DAYS after the Virginia Tech massacre, the friends and families of the victims are grieving — and despite the relentless glare of the media spotlight, their pain is still private. It belongs to them, not to the rest of us.

But you sure wouldn't know it from the way we talk about the tragedy.