1. When an enormous news story happens, coverage of that story becomes a story itself.
Obviously, when it comes to a tragedy in which nine people lost their lives, nothing else matters but the well-being of their loved ones and honoring their legacies.
But observations, no matter how unimportant in the grand scheme of life, about media coverage of a monumental story are allowed to be made.
Nothing could really prepare anyone in media for what happened Sunday with news breaking, via TMZ, of Kobe Bryant's death and later the news that Kobe's 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, also died in the crash.