The Minneapolis Star-Tribune’s Rohan Preston writes about the TV News people who have come to the city to report on the tragedy…

The elements at play — including the randomness of the catastrophe; the demographic sweep of its victims and the spectacular images of mangled steel, buckled concrete and cars tossed about like toys — created an irresistible lure for national and international media, said Jane Kirtley, a media-ethics professor at the University of Minnesota.

“The national coverage rightly picks up on the idea that this is symptomatic of a much bigger problem,” she added.

Of course, it’s the human drama that plays most strongly on TV. “For me at least, you see these lives changing in an instant, this panic, these incredible efforts by Minnesotans to save strangers, all of that draws you,” said CNN correspondent and anchor Randi Kaye, who formerly worked at WCCO-TV in the Twin Cities. “And it affects all of us because it could happen to any one of us.”