{"id":272,"date":"2007-04-17T06:30:20","date_gmt":"2007-04-17T11:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/index.php\/?p=272"},"modified":"2007-04-17T14:49:49","modified_gmt":"2007-04-17T19:49:49","slug":"was-charles-w-steger-smirking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddsingleton.net\/chronicle\/2007\/04\/17\/was-charles-w-steger-smirking\/","title":{"rendered":"Was Charles W. Steger smirking?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, during a\u00a0noon news conference,\u00a0a reporter asked Virginia Tech President Charles Steger and the Blacksburg Police Chief if they were at all emotionally affected by the shooting tragedy that occurred yesterday morning.\u00a0 I can understand the point of his question.\u00a0 I’m afraid the whole time I watched Charles Steger I thought the man was trying to surpress a grin.\u00a0 I tried to dismiss it as an unintented\u00a0reaction\u00a0to all the attention\u00a0from all the media, but I’m sorry to say\u00a0it\u00a0looked more like\u00a0he was\u00a0basking in\u00a0the attention this brought to him.<\/p>\n

Not only\u00a0did his administration and the police department most likely fumble the response and investigation\u00a0at the initial shooting (from what we know at this point).\u00a0 But his attitude could potentially fuel the outrage that is building in those who feel the second series of deaths could have been prevented.<\/p>\n

Virginia Tech would do well to find themselves another spokesperson\/PR Rep immediately to handle this issue.\u00a0 A few more days of Charles Seger on camera could be enough to fuel lawsuits from many directions against the Virginia Tech.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, during a\u00a0noon news conference,\u00a0a reporter asked Virginia Tech President Charles Steger and the Blacksburg Police Chief if they were at all emotionally affected by the shooting tragedy that occurred yesterday morning.\u00a0 I can understand the point of his question.\u00a0 I’m afraid the whole time I watched Charles Steger I thought the man was trying … Continue reading Was Charles W. Steger smirking?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t