Influx of media into Newtown

[Bruce]

Can a resident tell me what is like getting around Newtown/Sandy Hook in the hours and days following the shooting. Did curiousity seekers as well as satellite news trucks also converge on the town. Were there traffic jams. Could you get to work? thanks Bruce.

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You could not go through our town center at all! If you did it would take an hour!!! There was an insane amount of media and people from all over leavings memorials. For about 3 weeks I would say.

[Bruce]

Thanks Kate,
What I suspected. I saw a trucker who said he wanted to drop off a teddy bear in Newtown in memory of the children on Dec 17th and had to leave his rig parked on the interstate as the exit into Newtown was all backed up. He actually walked into town with the teddy bear!
Bruce

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I can imagine... In sandy hook there are only a handful of lights so it made it very difficult. All are small single lane roads...the normal 2 minute drive to the grocery store would take forever!

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Mar 17, 2013 15:41:14 GMT -8 Bruce said:

Thanks Kate,
What I suspected. I saw a trucker who said he wanted to drop off a teddy bear in Newtown in memory of the children on Dec 17th and had to leave his rig parked on the interstate as the exit into Newtown was all backed up. He actually walked into town with the teddy bear!
Bruce

That's the outpouring by complete strangers that America is. If we find out this thing was all a hoax, '''we're all gonna blow"", lol. God bless that trucker-man.

[Bruce]

Kate, mom and the rest of the Newtown residents, as tuffy said, we want to make sure whoever was responsible for this outrageous act will be held accountable! We stand behind you and support you and want to make sure justice is done!

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Bruce, thank you. And yes the media was a circus. We are a one road in, one road out community. I live 15 min to church. It took me one day 1 hour and 15 min to get to the center of town , not even the church I sat in traffic with plates from all over. The outpouring was wonderful but it made it hard for us to go anywhere with our kids as we tried to keep them as sheltered as possible.

[nicholasjordan456]

this is what interests me as I never have been an emotional person and even at the age of 3-4 yr abandoned a needs-moment due to being afraid of being forced to talk to counselors even though at that age no one could possible accept that i would know what that was about then later in 4-5th grade i croaked an actual counselor due to a risk-based decision but all many of us have been able to find so far is pics of massive fund-raising interspersed with video of funeral & cards then pleas for sympathy so ~ even though much of what is publicly available is all many of us will be able to see is there any sense locally that at some point we will get over the heavy emotive presentation such as when official reports are released ...?

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I understand that a report should be out about June? If that answered you question.

[nicholasjordan456]

that was not my question ~ i just put that in there for clarity ---- what I am asking is many of the issues like soto as poster image along with dozens of other inconsistent news media reports then some time-stamp issues resulted in very fast work by internet enthusiasts which actually is remarkable compared to some of what commercial media did but many of those observations cite television presentation which i know to be the result of very accomplished interpersonal skills by interview crew using location as studio ...... many would state that everyone would by-nature have to be overly emotive and torn-up --- for my position it is gender-based but what I am asking is there any talk of something like on day we will have to tell them what really happened ..... Lt. Vance & others who have been at the front of things are very accomplished at all that but what goes up on the internet seems to be filtered to some extent to be drama-only

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No I do not think there is a feeling that eventually they will have to tell us the truth. The truth is that Adam Lanza ( or who ever you want to believe) entered our school and killed 26 children and staff, prior to he took his mothers life and then his. To me all the other facts are not very important. What is important is the mental health of my children. And the revelation of other facts will not change how we are helping them.

[timeforachange]

It was a complete shit show with the media and non residents (though the intention of the non residents was definitely appreciated). My family had to block their large driveway because media trucks from around the world were showing up and parking in it.

I have a Sandy Hook address on my license and even I stayed out of town - communicating with my family in Sandy Hook through phone, text and facebook. I did not want to be one more car adding to the traffic.

[timeforachange]

Mar 17, 2013 20:47:35 GMT -8 nicholasjordan456 said:

that was not my question ~ i just put that in there for clarity ---- what I am asking is many of the issues like soto as poster image along with dozens of other inconsistent news media reports then some time-stamp issues resulted in very fast work by internet enthusiasts which actually is remarkable compared to some of what commercial media did but many of those observations cite television presentation which i know to be the result of very accomplished interpersonal skills by interview crew using location as studio ...... many would state that everyone would by-nature have to be overly emotive and torn-up --- for my position it is gender-based but what I am asking is there any talk of something like on day we will have to tell them what really happened ..... Lt. Vance & others who have been at the front of things are very accomplished at all that but what goes up on the internet seems to be filtered to some extent to be drama-only

Hi nicholasjordan! Welcome!

Please do me a favor - if you have a question, please create a thread specifically for it. It will help me, mom and Kate keep track of what has and has not been answered! Thanks so much!