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1 posted on 04/19/2007 3:30:14 PM PDT by ventanax5
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said Michael Welner, a forensic psychiatrist and ABC News consultant

But ABC would have done the same thing if they'd gotten the DVD wouldn't they?

2 posted on 04/19/2007 3:33:12 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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said Michael Welner, a forensic psychiatrist and ABC News consultant, on "Good Morning America" today.

Good thing he sent that package to NBC, huh?

3 posted on 04/19/2007 3:33:14 PM PDT by tsmith130
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I could not agree more. IMHO NBC has opened themselves up to a big time lawsuit. They have in effect fulfilled the murderers last desire.
4 posted on 04/19/2007 3:33:26 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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The world is mean, brutish and nasty.

Look away at your own peril.


5 posted on 04/19/2007 3:34:26 PM PDT by Glenn (Annoy a RudyBot...Think for yourself.)
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A little hysterical, even for a psychiatrist.
From ABC.
7 posted on 04/19/2007 3:35:44 PM PDT by Publius6961 (MSM: Israelis are killed by rockets; Lebanese are killed by Israelis.)
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Take it off the Internet. Let it be relegated to YouTube," Welner said.

Isn't YouTube part of the Internet?

8 posted on 04/19/2007 3:35:52 PM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture)
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I have mixed feelings. I am sympathetic to those families grieving. On the other hand, I think there is some purpose served in helping people understand what a mass murderer in the making says and acts like. Mass murderers almost all have the exact emotional and psychological profile.


13 posted on 04/19/2007 3:40:22 PM PDT by IamConservative (Any man who agrees with you on everything, will lie to anyone.)
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I don’t think they should have aired it.

By showing only bits, they were deciding what message the kid wanted to convey. Since we don’t know what was in the entire manifesto, we really don’t know if they presented it accurately, or did like so many news organizations do...put their own slant on it.

Show it all or show none at all...but I, personally, think it shouldn’t be shown.


15 posted on 04/19/2007 3:41:01 PM PDT by dawn53
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“Take it off the Internet. Let it be relegated to YouTube,”

Which is it? Make up your mind, dopey psychologist.


16 posted on 04/19/2007 3:41:27 PM PDT by GovernmentIsTheProblem (Capitalism is the economic expression of individual liberty. Pass it on.)
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All the news guys should be fired that ran the video.


21 posted on 04/19/2007 3:43:29 PM PDT by stockpirate (Congress should MANDATE the right to carry concealed weapons in ALL schools.)
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Peeping Tom society.


24 posted on 04/19/2007 3:45:58 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (We all need someone we can bleed on...)
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How quickly we forget....

Remember all the post-Columbine copycat school shootings? The media finally decided that they were playing a part in immortalizing the killers, enticing other like-minded (like-mindless?) miscreants to follow suit.


27 posted on 04/19/2007 3:47:30 PM PDT by randog (What the...?!)
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Putting aside the sensitivites of the families, etc., I think there are nuts all over the country watching the clips on every network (and yes, I think he could have mailed it to Fox or any of the networks and gotten it shown) and thinking with a little planning they could easily top his kill rate and be famous (actually infamous, but most people have no concept of the difference since there is no longer any right or wrong, shame, etc.)


31 posted on 04/19/2007 3:53:20 PM PDT by penowa (NO more Bushes; NO more Clintons EVER!)
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America needs to see just how criminally insane it is, to hate the rich.


39 posted on 04/19/2007 4:10:04 PM PDT by H.Akston (Jihad - my struggle - mien kampf.)
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Ya think. We the people should insist our congresscritters enact legislation that buries the accomplishments, makes artistic opportunity illegal(as in a movie about this shit) and expunges the records of the person who commits a crime resulting in the death of X number of people. Basically make it so the glory seeker is rendered as never having existed. The fact NBC ran with the video shows they don’t give a crap about the world we live in.

Also this idiot got his “inspiration” from an utterly pornographic piece of film known as Old Boy. I rented this crap. Cannes fawned over it. It’s hopelessly stupid and violent and centers around a father’s fight to rejoin his daughter who he enjoys sex with.

Liberalism in it’s current debauched state is to blame for this stuff happening.


42 posted on 04/19/2007 4:17:14 PM PDT by kinghorse (I didn't question Nancy's patriotism. I questioned her judgment - Dick Cheney 2007)
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NBC did an absolutely backward approach, ending up with the worst of all worlds.

They sensationalized this guy by the way they played his videos and read excerpts from his statement on the evening news, in front of their audience of millions of families.

And then, on their website, they only posted NBC-selected individual pages and video clips for people interested in analyzing this guy.

They should have NOT shown video clips or read lengthy excerpts on the evening news broadcast - but rather had a background still of an unflattering photo (we know they can do that, they do that with conservatives all the time) of the guy, and referred generally to the themes in his message. And then moved on to a more lengthy piece on the people whose promising lives he cut short by killing them.

And on the website, they should have posted all the materials, including at least a full transcript of the videos if not the videos themselves, at this time.

I read a quote by a police spokesman that they materials in the NBC package added little or nothing to the investigation, so I doubt very much that the portions that were posted or not posted on the website were decided by law enforcement.


44 posted on 04/19/2007 4:19:04 PM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
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Anybody old enough to remember when everything wasn’t censored and banned for our emotional health?


47 posted on 04/19/2007 4:25:42 PM PDT by D.P.Roberts (Just a humble handbasket salesman- what size would you like, sir?)
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I think the greatest danger to airing this murderer’s videos is the possibility that another wacko will find them inspiring and encourage them to act out their sick fantasies knowing that they too can become famous on live t.v.


52 posted on 04/19/2007 4:41:53 PM PDT by Chena (I want a President who will also be tough against liberalism. HONK!!!)
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Bingo. They show this video, which should never be shown to anyone, but they refuse to show the 9/11 videos because “it’s too soon” and “the emotions are too raw.” (IOW, it might remind us why we’re fighting.)

Sure, exploit these families for your own pruient purposes, but don’t allow 9/11 to interere with your ideology.


56 posted on 04/19/2007 4:57:31 PM PDT by TBP
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Leave it to the MSM to be a partner in crime to this killer.

Very sad. This is exactly what this devil wanted.


61 posted on 04/19/2007 5:17:21 PM PDT by spanalot
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