It’s usually median by a week and it has already been a severe one.
Internationally, dozens of people have been shot passed and hundreds bleeding during a Las Vegas nation song festival.
Locally we have had several people injured, dual critically, in 3 apart residence fires. Tragically, after a third fire, a immature child has died.
You might have seen these stories in a media.
What we might not have seen is a media behind a stories.
We in a media have a pursuit to do when these events occur. People wish to know what’s going on … is it serious, is it someone they know, should they be worried, what can they do?
It’s tellurian inlet to wish to know these things, and it’s a news media’s pursuit to surprise people.
For this we are mostly criticised, even reviled. “The media” can come in for a lot of flak.
But while people see what’s in a media, they frequency see what’s behind a media.
First and inaugural it’s people.
Each of a reporters, photographers, videographers, editors and some-more who are reserved to these stories has family and friends and their possess life events both happy and sad.
So behind a scenes, behind a websites and news bulletins and front pages, are tellurian faces and tellurian emotions and in a week like this, startle and low sadness.
There is strength in knowing, however, that a Hawke’s Bay village has a heart – that’s something we news on mostly – and that these families will be wrapped around by their village and upheld by this tough time.