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4.19.2007
NBC Is Back Tracking
Boy, The Today Show on NBC spent the first two minutes (or more) this morning explaining why the network decided to release the video and photos of the Virginia Tech killer. I bet they are catching extreme heat over their choice to run with the story.
"We will severely limit the amount of video you will see," Matt Lauer said. Really?
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Man, you should have heard the consultant (a psychiatric ER doctor, I think) on ABC's Good Morning America! He went on a RANT about NOT showing the shooter's video, with good reasoning. First of all, it does no good to do it. Second, it does not state reality (the fact that he was being "tortured" by society). Third, it just plays into his hands--he WANTED it played by the media. He said over and over again "you don't learn anything about (the shooter) by watching it". The media is always saying they want to get "more insight" into his thoughts, but his thoughts are just paranoid thoughts, so you learn nothing. I agree, ignore the rants of this paranoid loser, and let's pay more attention to the victims (however, a survivor of Columbine said to the media that what victims and survivors need more than anything else, is for the media to "back off" and leave them alone). HMMM, the common element in all this mishandling is---our MEDIA! Our "glorious" "free press" at work again!!
Sometimes freedom just crosses the line as far as the media is concerned.
Those folks could do with a bit of sensitivity training.
Bigtime.
Where do we log on to tell the media to STOP "glorifying" this killer by pasting his images and rantings all over the place!!
Links anyone?
I bet the NBC execs just about wet their pants in glee at their coup in being chosen to receive that crap. Shame on them for showing it.
But didn't we all WATCH it? Over and over again. That's why the media releases it. We all love a train wreck.
And anyway, that ship has sailed -- it's all over the Internets (a series of tubes) and will never, ever die. It's a goddamned shame. Ugh.
I agree that the public does not need access to this information. The media way overdoes their coverage - to the glories/benefit of the deranged killer.
However, once it becomes known that the tapes and papers exist, someone would file a "freedom of information" request and go on to splash the garbage around. All I can see coming from this publicity is more copy-cat killers. This is not information we need to conduct our lives.
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