On Apr. 20, in the memory of the tragic Columbine shootings on it's 10th anniversary, Oprah chose to... not do an anniversary show. The story was featured everywhere, including HuffPo. And, linked at the bottom were three similar stories:1. A book called, "Do you know who your children are?"
2. A clever, ad-lib style letter from the Josh Sugarmann, the exec. director of the Violence Policy Center and author of "Every Handgun is Aimed at you: The case for Banning Handguns".
3. "10 years after Columbine, Elected Officials Doing Nothing is Not Working"
In an amazing way, Oprah managed to use her celebrity name to - at least on HuffPo - to direct attention to the stories that really matter, that really need attention on the anniversary of Columbine. She wrote on Oprah.com, "I decided to pull the Columbine show today. After reviewing it, I thought it focused too much on the killers. Today, hold a thought for the Columbine community..."
Oprah showed restraint and even though millions of people may have tuned into her anniversary show, maybe some of them will have clicked the link on some web page that described her canceling her show - and hopefully, click on to read about what needs to be done to prevent this from ever happening again.
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