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BLOGGING A MASSACRE (3#) -

# *The Roanoke Times, the closest daily paper to the Virginia Tech campus, has been covering the shooting of more than 30 students there on its Web site with updates to a blog-style story, with the first posted at 10:17am.* [E&P]

# 7:48pm: "Tech police Chief Wendell Flinchum said police had made a preliminary identification of the shooter but were not releasing the identity at this time." [RTwb]

# *The massacre on the campus of Virginia Tech this morning came so suddenly, along with a constantly updated death count, that many newspapers both local and national responded by basing much of their breaking coverage on brief blog-like entries.* [E&P]

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