NBC: Media Mess

The GOPNation.com ^ | April 19, 2007 | The GOPNation.com

[bmweezer]

The fact that NBC has aired (and aired again, and again!) the Va Tech killer's manifesto isn't surprising. What is surprising is the way the internet chatters are responding to this fact. Quite clearly, there are a lot of people very angry at the Peacock network at this moment. By airing these tapes, NBC has given the killer what he wanted: notoriety. Since the guy wimped out and killed himself, short of there being GE televisions in hell, Cho Seung-Hui knows nothing of this notoriety since HE IS DEAD. However, future would-be killers have gotten the message: go nuts, kill some people and suddenly msnbc.com is your very own youtube and Brian Williams your own spokesman.

The MSM just lost more respectability, and we didn't think that they could fall any further.

[Dog]

The Backlash begins...

[P-40]

We got the bubble-headed-bleach-blonde who
Comes on at five
She can tell you bout the plane crash with a gleam
In her eye
Its interesting when people die-
Give us dirty laundry

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/don+henley/dirty+laundry_20042033.html

[twntaipan]

NBC let a desire for ratings be far more important than a desire to protect the families of the victims.

[BelegStrongbow]

I would consider the “backlash” from GOPNation a good thing. Would you not? I usually use ‘backlash’ in a pejorative snese so you’ve confused at least me.

Perhaps a /sarc tag got left off?

[abner]

That is exactly what went through my head too!

[P-40]

Henley was spot on with that song. :)

We can do the innuendo
We can dance and sing
When its said and done we havent told you a thing
We all know that crap is king
Give us dirty laundry!

[betsyross1776]

If there is a media mess it was by NBC decision that they brought it. I am so sorry for NBC that they could not have an ounce of decency and not target the working of a madman.But as they said it is by their own decision the backlash has come.

[Arrowhead1952]

Related thread from different source (NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein).

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NBC Airs Laundry Over Airing Cho Materials: Angry Parents, Execs
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1819918/posts

[Pikachu_Dad]

They need to release the full document, unedited. The sooner the better.

[JWinNC]

The more they run it, the better if you ask me.

[MinuteGal]

The bodies aren't even in the ground yet and the ratings competition has begun in all its savagery. No civilized sensibilities will be observed or honored.

We live in the Days of the Jackals.

Leni

[highlander_UW]

Honestly, I don’t think there is a network or cable news organization that wouldn’t have aired the video. In fact, since NBC shared some of the film I think they all have shown pieces of it.

[Paleo Conservative]

If I had gotten that DVD, I would have copyrighted the contents and prohibited anyone from law enforcement from viewing them.

[Aquinasfan]

future would-be killers have gotten the message: go nuts, kill some people and suddenly msnbc.com is your very own youtube and Brian Williams your own spokesman.

Yup. And there will be a next time.

[P-40]

I think future nutballs are taking notes.

[elpinta]

“...they could not have an ounce of decency...”

Well, this ‘corporate’ thinking at its best.

[Howlin]

If there is a media mess it was by NBC decision that they brought it.

The sight of Brian Williams on TV justifying what they had done by saying that because the stuff was mailed to them it was THEIR PROPERTY almost made my head explode.

FGS, it was EVIDENCE in a mass murder.

[cartoonistx]

My favorite line...
Coulda been an actor but I wound up here,
Only gotta look good I don't have to be clear,
Come and whisper in my ear!
Give us Dirty Laundry!

[weegee]

NBC branded the photo as their property too. They are proud of being “chosen”. One of their anchors called it a legacy.

Sick. Sick minds. Not just the killer, but the network.

And sweeps are coming up soon.