[Jeff Higgins]

Face it; news folks are in their glory when something like this happens. They sit around for days, weeks, months, years on end waiting for anything really "newsworthy" to happen. Like today's firemen waiting for their next call.

They have grown so accustomed to making their own news (by overstating and over-analyzing every little thing they report) that I believe they have become incapable of showing restraint where restraint is called for. They only see "the story", in some detached manner that precludes them from seeing the real people in the story.

The people they are used to dealing with on a daily basis, the celebrities and public figures that are their partners in fabricating news where none previously existed, are used to their intrusive camera-in-your-face approach. The real people, who are used to living their lives out of the spotlight, are anything but accustomed to that treatment. Our media pundits have no concept of that; capturing the grieving mother in the depths of her despair is a major coup for them. Similar to capturing the emotion of a Super Bowl winning quarterback moments after the final whistle. They feel it "humanizes" the story for their audiences. They could give a ***** how it dehumanizes it for the victims' families. It's all about "the story".