Instead of holding regular press conferences and responding quickly to media inquiries, the city of Virginia Beach’s “communications” department is issuing late Thursday afternoon missives.
All tagged DeWayne Craddock
Virginia Beach Shooting and Transparency
“We used to joke that it would take a member of the public shooting up the place to get them to put card swipers on our floor,” I was told by one survivor.
Virginia Beach Needs To Come Clean
Despite an affable mayor who favors transparency in business deals, the information flow about the killing spree is being controlled by the city manager and his staff who have no history of transparency.
Ralph Northam. Opportunist.
Gun control has long been on Northam’s to-do list. When most of his gun agenda died in the winter of 2018 Northam declared he was “just getting warmed up.”
Mass Shooters And Notoriety
It’s a delicate balance. Weighing the need to know against the danger of romanticizing a killer.