Cho victim parents on CNN now.

[trof]

The Herbstritts.
I know different people deal with grief and loss in different ways.
But I can not possibly imagine giving an interview about my murdered child on national TV.

Maybe in a few months or a year, if I thought I could shed any light on why it happened, or how to avoid this kind of tragedy in the future.
But not two days after it happened.

The dad is breaking up.
Wolf is holding the mom's hand.
To me this is just obscene.
Cut to commercial.

[hlthe2b]

1. Is it over now? I missed it, I guess.

[TahitiNut]

2. Social and media necrophilia

If it bleeds, it leads ... and here come the vampires.

[hlthe2b]

11. Yes... but I have to say it is important for the parents to be heard

from... Not to torture them, but to humanize them.

I would only have expected a released statement delivered from a family friend, however. This had to be so difficult.

[laylah]

3. I agree completely; however,

the parents must have agreed. I cannot imagine losing my child in ANY fashion, let alone in a bloodbath. I know I would no sooner be "in the spotlight" than I would ever vote for *dumbass but everyone is different.

Jenn

[Karenina]

4. SICK, SICK, SICK.

Hey DJ!!! CUE UP "Dirty Laundry!"

[MADem]

5. Maybe they feel a need to "explain themselves." Some shit producer probably conned them into it.

I don't get it either, but then, I come from a generation where it was not uncommon to interact with family members who would wear black for seven years after a death. After the first year or so, you could add a bit of white, but you had to have that black on to show you cared!

Of course, the fates always conspired that once the seven years was up, some other asshole would cruelly up and die, and the purple outfit would go back in the closet....

[shaniqua6392]

7. That last line in your post....

made me laugh so hard I think coffee came out of my nose!! Beautifully worded and so very true. LOL! Thank you.

[MADem]

8. The stuff that resonates the most is always the truth! And that actually did happen!

We eventually persuaded the owner of the outfit to screw tradition and wear the foolish thing to a family party. She was looking over her shoulder the whole time, like she'd committed the worst possible sin against humanity...!!

[LSparkle]

6. It's obscene on so many levels

Including the total dissection of Cho's psyche and his demonization. He was a troubled kid, OK -- and yes, he did a terrible, terrible, TERRIBLE thing, but the way the media is tearing him to shreds now makes me wonder what's going to become of his parents and family. We have 33 people already dead -- I'm just afraid the media coverage is going to drive these people to be the next deaths we hear about.

[DesertRat]

9. That was so painful to watch

They are still in shock...referring to their son in the present tense. I have 2 kids in college and I can't imagine the pain....

[hlthe2b]

12. What did they say, DesertRat?

[DesertRat]

13. They talked about what a great guy he is

and how they and his siblings love him. It was raw and incredibly sad.

[DesertRat]

10. My husband's sister and her husband were killed in an airline crash

My husband's family didn't want to talk to the press who called and banged on the door THE NIGHT IT HAPPPENED and for weeks afterward.....but some of her husband's family did. I understand the shock and the need to want to talk about the loved one.

Both of them were such incredibly well-liked, vibrant, giving people. You want to tell others about them. I think that's why people talk to the press. The press takes advantage of the vulnerability that you have at the time.