AP关于美国校园枪击案的后续报道是这样的
Apr 18, 8:49 AM EDT
Another Scare Rattles Va. Tech Campus
By ADAM GELLER
AP National Writer
BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Virginia Tech students still on edge after the deadliest shooting in U.S. history got another scare Wednesday morning as police in SWAT gear with weapons drawn swarmed Burruss Hall, which houses the president’s office.
The threat of suspicious activity turned out to be unfounded, said Virginia State Police spokeswoman Corinne Geller said, and the building was reopened. But students were rattled.
“They were just screaming, ‘Get off the sidewalks,’” said Terryn Wingler-Petty, a junior from Wisconsin. “They seemed very confused about what was going on. They were just trying to get people organized.”
One officer was seen escorting a crying young woman out, telling her, “It’s OK. It’s OK.”
Roommates and professors began opening up Wednesday about the gunman who had killed 32 people and himself in two university buildings on Monday. Roommates said Cho Seung-Hui rarely spoke or made eye contact with them and that his bizarre behavior became even less predictable in recent weeks.
这个事件甚至影响到了2008的美国总统选战,枪支管理问题被作为一个AGENDA提了出来。
2008 Candidates on Spot Over Gun-Control
By CALVIN WOODWARD
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Gun control has been treated with a mix of silence and discomfort in the presidential campaign, a stance that may become insupportable once the nation finds its voice in the aftermath of the Virginia Tech mass murder.
Democrats have been deliberately muted for months on an issue that, by their own reckoning, contributed to and perhaps sealed their defeat in the 2000 presidential election. That’s when Al Gore’s call for gun registration cost him votes in rural America and dulled the party’s appetite for taking on the gun lobby.
Top Republicans in the race are trying to close ranks with their party’s conservative base on a variety of issues, making gun control an unusually sensitive one for them, too, thanks to their liberal views in the past.
Enter the massacre at Blacksburg, Va., an attack so horrific it froze the presidential campaign in place. Candidates called off events and expressed only sorrow, not opinion, in the first hours.
不过我觉得AP今天最有趣的新闻是TOP STORIES里的中国北京出租车司机不能染头发和戴大耳环的新闻。
Apr 18, 7:39 AM EDT
Beijing Says No Red Hair for Cabbies
BEIJING (AP) — Red hair and the big earrings are out for women Beijing cab drivers in the run-up to next summer’s Olympic Games, a state-run newspaper reported Wednesday.
The bans were part of a 12-item self-improvement list given to cab drivers by the city’s transport management bureau, the Beijing News said.
The list includes the usual pleas to be polite and not to smoke, spit or overcharge, plus the hair and jewelry tips for women. Men were told not to have long hair.
“Some drivers don’t care about their appearance and this has a negative impact on the whole industry,” the bureau’s vice director Yao Kuo was quoted as saying by the newspaper.
“A person’s hairstyle and accessories are their personal business, but cab drivers must remember they are a window for China’s capital,” Yao said.
Drivers who do not use their meters or refuse to pick up passengers will lose their licenses, the paper said.
It did not say if there would be any penalties for cab drivers who dyed their hair red or broke the other guidelines.
全文都蛮有趣的,似乎是用一种类似我们的官方口吻说的,但用英文表达起来味道就是那么怪。文章中没有主观臆断的评论,但AP的观点也已经表露无疑。
有学生问我美国主流媒体关心什么?我想美联社的头版故事能说明许多问题。
(补充:
纽约时报的头条显然更具有争议性,把矛头直接直向两次枪击之间的那两个小时,的确是具有责任感和追求真理的报纸。
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By SHAILA DEWAN and JOHN M. BRODER 7:28 AM ET
Virginia Tech officials were pursuing what appears to have been a fruitless lead after the first shooting when the second began.
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时代周刊和CNN同样最关注那两个小时,把这两个小时当作窗口,审视美国的校园安全制度。
以下是华盛顿邮报的头条,显然更官方化一些,没有那种刨根问底探究问题的劲头。
A Dark Portrait of Shooter Revealed
洛杉玑时报的报道虽然平凡,照片还是不错的,有着人性的力量。

是不是比USA TODAY的好呢?
