Sacramento TV News Coverage of Mass Shooting Chaos Compelling and Vivid; ABC 10 Anchor, Monica Coleman and Reporter, Luke Cleary Stand Out; Sunday PM Report

THE IMAGES out of Sacramento of the mass shootings that took place early Sunday morning are disturbing enough--all you need to do is imagine the chaos and utter violence and despair caught on various YouTube footage. It is incomprehensible.

You could also only imagine what was taking place at the scene of the crime(s).

Covering such a story is difficult too. The adrenalin rush is naturally applied here because reporters on scene are usually caught in the emotion of the moment; yes, they're human but they also have to be careful because the sensitivity of the moment (and subsequent moments), is evident and information is vital, especially in a chaotic scene like that in Sacramento. Again, it's a difficult story to tell, literally and figuratively.

I looked at a lot of the TV News accounts and most were spot on. The live reports, the pressers (especially with the Sacramento Chief of Police, Kathy Lester) were all informative and useful.

Especially powerful and quite compelling and effective: only a few hours after the shootings, the ABC affiliate in Sacramento, broke into programming and offered a live report.

Anchor Monica Coleman and field reporter Luke Cleary broadcast the aftermath of the incident.

Cleary was on scene at one of the shooting sites and offered a vivid, chilling, and compelling account of the chaos that had, only hours earlier, taken place.

Cleary, in fact, managed to get an interview with a youth adviser, who was at the carnage afterwards, and provided a breath-taking, albeit, disturbing description of the horror that he witnessed. It's both chilling and compelling.

I have to give credit to the Sacramento TV News anchors and reporters for their rapid, concise, and quick-to-the-scene coverage of the mayhem that took place. Again, this is a very difficult story to report and they pulled it off in remarkable fashion.

*WARNING: some of the images in this posting, from Sacramento TV News video, are disturbing.