Last night I was flicking around the channels, and I saw Brian on MSNBC and he made the following statement: (I’m paraphrasing)
We made a copy before we turned it over to the FBI, afterall, we received it, we own it.
Pathetic, disgraceful, but oh-so-typical of the arrogant and ignorant lefty liberal media. The only reason they are airing it is for ratings; it has no value in the public domain. I cannot imagine the heartache the VT community was feeling before the airing of this outrageous video; upon seeing this, their heartache must be magnified many many times.
I’m disgusted with FNC and their coverage of this video as well. I don’t watch CNN so I have no clue how they are covering it, but again, I say NBC’s decision was based solely on ratings....they “advertised” the airing of the video to get a broader audience — that is all they care about, their bottom line.
We made a copy before we turned it over to the FBI, afterall, we received it, we own it.
Pathetic, disgraceful, but oh-so-typical of the arrogant and ignorant lefty liberal media. The only reason they are airing it is for ratings; it has no value in the public domain. I cannot imagine the heartache the VT community was feeling before the airing of this outrageous video; upon seeing this, their heartache must be magnified many many times.
I’m disgusted with FNC and their coverage of this video as well. I don’t watch CNN so I have no clue how they are covering it, but again, I say NBC’s decision was based solely on ratings....they “advertised” the airing of the video to get a broader audience — that is all they care about, their bottom line.
IMO, a much more appropriate way for NBC to have handled this would be to have posted ALL of the videos, photos and text on their website without filtering it or spinning it for what they think the public needs to know (they could redact the names of living VaTech students or professors he refers to, if any) so that those who wish to analyze the a-hole's rantings in order to consider the influences that may have made an impression on his sick mind and what implications for public policy there might be to reduce the chances of future such crimes, etc., could do so; insofar as the NBC Evening News broadcast is concerned, I would NOT have shown the videos or quoted extensively from the rantings of the a-hole but referred briefly to the major themes with background stills of the a-hole, in order not to give a postmortem satisfaction to the a-hole by broadcasting extensive portions of his video or written messages to a mass audience.
Before broadcasting or posting anything, NBC News properly should have alerted the police investigators first, to give them a chance to object on the basis that disclosing some particular thing might jeopardize an ongoing investigation -- investigators may still be trying to determine if anyone else had any advance knowledge of the act or had knowingly assisted the a-hole in any way in preparing or obtaining things connected to the crime.
Something else I find tasteless, and perhaps I am the only one who does, is the way all of the TV news organizations develop a dramatic-sounding musical theme and slick graphics for each of these crises which they play as an introduction to a news report on the event. To my mind, the trite music and slick graphics tend somewhat to trivialize the event they are reporting.