I felt like there wasn't much media coverage about the NIU shootings that happened last month, on February 15, 2008. Maybe I think that because I wasn't paying enough attention to news that week, but I honestly felt like I didn't learn anything about the situation from the news.
So I went to The New York Times website to look at the type of coverage that they had of the crisis. I first read the article published online from the day of the shooting entitled Gunman Slays 6 at N. Illinois University and I thought the coverage was pretty good for having limited information.
This article overall emphasized the feelings of students involved and it illustrated almost a play by play narrative of what happened. This tactic almost seemed like a sensationalizing technique to help the reader feel sympathy, imagine the scene, and create intrigue.
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