growing very annoyed with the columbine hoopla...

[Wooley]

1) Uneven and arguably exploitative media coverage of the anniversary 2) People using the anniversary as a means to spin the public's attention toward their own sociopolitical agendas. This. I think this is where the backlash against these all day memorials years after the fact is from. A day where the media ghouls get to short stroke old bloodshed, and where some group tries to use the memory of the dead and injured to sell their political ideology. I'm looking at you, gun control advocates, you pack of fucking vultures.

[Chic Freak]

Are we debating commemorating the deaths themselves, or the way they are being commemorated?

[mista_mo]

Good question Chic. Personally, I think they just really wanted a Klondike bar.

[MinionZombie]

Are we debating commemorating the deaths themselves, or the way they are being commemorated? I think the annoyance comes at the media blitz about it all - but it's what the mainstream media does - they pick a story and then suck all life out of it, while not doing a single bit of investigative journalism as they do so, which is a real annoyance in itself.