SHUTTLE COVERAGE

A few of you have taken me to task for not writing more about the Columbia tragedy. I was travelling that morning, alas. But more generally, I haven’t written much because I have nothing worthwhile to say, except, obviously, condolences for the families involved. Saying nothing is not the same as feeling nothing. But it seems to me that events like this – disasters, earthquakes, floods, explosions – are best dealt with by simple hard news reporting, which is not what this blog is or should be about. Finding ‘angles’ to these events, opining prematurely, hyper-ventilating about the meaning of it all – please turn elsewhere for these. I’m with Jonah Goldberg on this, feeling that the media has gone overboard. It is an awful event, and I will pray for those grieving. But I have nothing much to add to that sincere if banal observation.