Embed At Virginia Tech

Here's a quote from a reporter who is covering the Virginia Tech shooting. He was also an embed in Iraq:

Bowman, an Air Force veteran, says even covering the war as an embed, which for him included a close call with an enemy attack, had less exposure to outright tragedy and suffering than the campus shooting has offered. "The war was a process, things were happening every day. This is more aftermath of a major calamity," he said. "You are dealing with victims, investigations and traumatized family members and getting at the truth. A massive story to get your hands around."

Tribalism is fasinating.

This reporter is outright saying that because it's happening in his home, to his people, his country, it's more traumatic. Frankly, if he didn't experience the up-close and personal aspects of tragedy in Iraq, he didn't do a good job.

I'm not sure he's being totally provincial, but the news piece in E&P came across that way. I think he's trying to make the point that the Virginia Tech tragedy is a .... tragedy. But it came across as if he's saying it's more of a tragedy than the daily mass murders occurring in Iraq. Let's go ask a few Iraqi's who have lost family members how they feel.