Bob McCarty Writes

As a public relations practitioner during most of the past 20 years, I’ve been “knee deep” in my share of crises, many of which involved losses of life and property. Upon learning of Virginia Tech University’s release yesterday of a report about the April 16 tragedy, I was eager to compare their findings to my [...]

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Moments ago, Associated Press published an article about Cho Heung-Sui, citing individuals who say their former classmate-turned shooter was picked on, pushed around and laughed at over his shyness and the strange way he walked. Note to People of the World: The fact that you’ve been ridiculed by someone does not justify any act(s) of [...]

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I mentioned in a post here yesterday that I would be a guest on the morning drive show, Allman in the Morning, on 97.1 FM Talk, the Fox News Radio outlet in St. Louis. The topic of the 7:10 a.m. interview was the handling of the crisis at Virginia Tech Monday, April 17. If you’re [...]

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In his blog at The Politico.com, Ben Smith offers a a 23-minute audio clip (mp3) of remarks made by Sen. Barack Obama’s before a crowd in Milwaukee Monday night. Obama “pushes the envelope”, so to speak, by entering into a discussion of violence in American life toward the end of the speech before eventually blaming [...]

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An article today by Chicago Tribune reporter Rex. W. Huppke offers new insight into yesterday’s ghastly murders of 32 people — plus the shooter, Cho Seung-Hui — at Virginia Tech University. Huppke writes: Fairfax County, Va., police investigators said today that Virginia Tech gunman Cho Seung-Hui was a 2003 graduate of the same high school [...]

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The information below came directly off the Virginia Tech web site: Updated at 9:15 a.m., Tuesday, 04.17.2007 The Virginia Tech Police Department has confirmed the identification of the gunman responsible for the multiple fatalities at Norris Hall on the Virginia Tech campus Monday The individual has been identified as Cho Seung-Hui, 23. Cho was enrolled [...]

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Beneath a Fox News.com headline, Parents Demand Firing of Virginia Tech President, Police Chief Over Poor Handling of Mass Shooting, this morning, is an article about the parents of a Virginia Tech student expressing outrage at what they call an “inadequate response by college brass to the worst mass-murder shooting in American history.” The cruxt [...]

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