On Monday, April 16th, Jamal Albarghouti made a consciously editorial decision that the chaos happening - right there - all around him on the Virginia Tech campus, was something that he should record on his video enabled camera. To fight the wise instinct to protect ones life - to set that aside and decide [...]

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As I come down from the contact high of adrenaline brought about by deadlines on top of dealines, exposure to screaming producers, competing with ourselves and others, the constant din of satellite truck generators, running from this breaking event to that… I’m now able to come up for air. Before I type another [...]

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Todays terrifying shooting rampage at Virginia Tech is still developing as of this writing. This is how i found out:

NBC just called, I’m to hop on a charter out of Dulles. My next post will be from VA Tech. All of the most dramatic video thus far has come from cell phones
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