The media were all over the Columbine school shootings that killed 13 people a few years ago. Yet with the recent shooting massacre that took place on a native reservation, the media turn away and barely mention the tragedy. National Public Radio was little better than MSN, CNN and other media. The only fair coverage was from local and native media.

We need to ask ourselves why we don’t get the news in this school shooting? Why is no one probing this? Why one woman’s court case in Florida is making headlines when many young people have died in a massacre?

I have to wonder, does the fact that the tragedy was in a Native American community make the shooting not newsworthy?

I have been deeply upset by the opportunity for Americans, all of us, to look at this, be affected by the facts and learn from this. We need to talk to the people we meet – the cashier at the grocery store, co-workers and friends – about this. We need to be investigating the meaning of this, because the media isn’t.

Joanna Horton, Lewiston