Stop for a moment and consider this scenario:
The phone rings.
It's the manager of one of your branch offices in another state, calling from a convenience store phone booth. In a panicked voice, he blurts out that there has been a shooting. Several key people have been shot to death and others wounded. The manager is in a state of shock and unable to function. You hear police sirens in the background.
Before hanging up your manager is able to tell you that the shooter, a recently discharged employee with a history of angry outbursts, has taken six other people hostage and is threatening to kill them one by one unless his demands are met. His wife has just gone on national television with claims that her husband was "systematically abused" by his colleagues over a period of years. Police and media have surrounded the office where the shooter is holed up. It's clear that this is going to be a major story with global media coverage.
Just then your secretary bursts in with the news that at least a dozen journalists, including print and broadcast media have just arrived in the reception area and are demanding to see you. She says they have already been interviewing some of the staff.
