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Sunday, July 17, 2005

"I never thought blood could be so heavy"

Sid Smith of Chicago Tribune: "Beslan" puts human face on school deaths:

In a bit of uncanny, fortuitous timing, the PBS program "Wide Angle" this week is airing "Beslan: Siege of School No. 1" (8 p.m. Thursday, WTTW-Ch. 11), a documentary about the terrorist attack by Chechen gunmen last September.
It would be a compelling, close-up documentary of horror at any time, but coming after last week's London ordeal, it is all the more relevant and reverberating. It is also a grim reminder of how today's headlines too easily erase our memories of earlier tragedies. During the three-day Beslan ordeal, 330 died, more than half of them children.

Remember that? CBS did a network special report at about 6:29 AM Eastern, between rebroadcasts on net of the CBS Morning News (which airs live on a separate feed at 4:30 AM ET to East Coast stations who wish to use it; it does not hit network until 5:30 AM or 6:00 AM). I was still on mornings. We ended up not taking the network cut-in because it was optional and didn't last that long. Furthermore, we were already in news and reporting the story ourselves.

To me it all boils down to the question: Why terror?

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