I haven’t written anything on my blog about the shootings at VA Tech last week for several reasons. The first, and most obvious, is that blogging seems to be taking a back burner to life these days. I’ve thought about it, I have thoughts to share, I just haven’t had the time to invest in something meaningful.

Another reason, is that I don’t get a lot of media. We don’t watch television. I rarely check the news online. I rarely hear the news on the radio. If something major happens, like this, I generally hear about it second hand from my husband, mother or sister. They keep me informed. I may then look up information on the topic. Call me ill-informed, but I usually hear about things late. I rarely have lots of intimate details. Mostly, I like it that way.

But, the main reason, would be that so many other bloggers, better bloggers, who have written meaningful things about it, have pretty much covered the story. Often from a perspective I’d rather like to adopt.

One of those bloggers is Blest With Sons. Her post God Bless the Sheepdogs, does an excellent job of taking the attention away from the the perpetrator and focusing our attention on a hero.

76 year old Professor Liviu Lebrescu was a sheepdog yesterday, giving his life to save his students. I honor him with all my heart. We can’t always know by looking who are the sheepdogs among us, but thank God they are there.

And then Catez, of All Things 2 All, has a post, Will the Media Get Real, where she asks talks tough about the media’s handling of the video sent to them by the murderer. Very thought provoking.

If ever anything needed to be turned upside down it is this tabloid reality tv mentality, in which we the viewers are treated like voyeurs who will gasp and gape at the most insensitive and irresponsible fare served up to us under the guise of keeping us informed. We know that it only takes one. If another individual goes on to copy this and wreak the destruction of several lives in a distorted quest for fame, will the media wash their hands behind the excuse that they just do what is in the public interest? When faced with these questions will they evade their part and query back like Pilate, “What is truth?”

**While you are checking out Catez’s blog, why don’t you hop on over and vote for her at the Blogger’s Choice Awards. I can’t think of a better candidate!