Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Think [Stephen Spruiell]
NBC News will reportedly air portions of a video it received from homicidal lunatic Cho Seung-Hui on its 6:30 p.m. broadcast, 15 minutes from now. I assume I share with many Americans a morbid curiosity about what's contained on that video. But NBC News is about to give Cho an audience of around 10 million people for his deranged rantings. What kind of message does this send to other isolated, disturbed and angry youths who entertain the same violent thoughts as Cho? This is a screencap of MSNBC's homepage taken only moments ago:
Is anyone else uncomfortable with how closely this resembles a movie poster?
Think hard, NBC News. You only get one chance to do this right. Maybe the right decision is eventually to show parts of the tape. But perhaps this is something you should sleep on.
04/18 06:13 PM
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