Ted_Perry's Blog

Fox reporter Jonathan Serrie was on with us during our 5pm news today for what we call a "talk back"--it's basically a chance for anchors in one town to ask the reporter in another to tell us more about the story. Serrie is in Blacksburg, Virginia and he told Beverly and me a story about how VTU students made cookies and went from news truck to news truck 'thanking' crews for telling the story of the students who lost their lives.  That was a first for me.

Those students were witness to an unspeakable act and yet they were checking in on news crews. This isn't about how to deal with the media. This is about the grace I've seen from student after student after student interviewed about Monday's carnage.

I had the night off from "the news" tonight so naturally I came home to watch "the news" and as I flicked around from coverage on broadcast and cable stations one point was crystal clear: these are some of the most poised men and women I've seen on airwaves in a long time.  I watched one after another. Each was intelligent, poised, gracious and well-spoken.  On my best day in college I wasn't as articulate as any of them. And this, I'm quite certain, is not their best day.  

I have no great insight on that. Nothing more to add.

They  just seem to be a credit to a school going thru a beyond-awful time and to their parents who surely can't wait to hug them.