Cashing in on A Killer’s Gift

Says 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?

The network is also hyping that it will show more of the video on its cable channel and the Today show tomorrow.

It’s not hitting all those outlets out of some journalistic duty to report whatever story it finds in the loony rantings of a mass murderer. Today is about as much of a news show as the Might Morphin Power Rangers and goodness knows that almost no one watches MSNBC.

Spruiell says that NBC needs to be very careful because they have only one chance to do it right. I think that by pimping the video across three shows and two networks they’ve already blown it. They’re profiting from the deaths of 33 people and they don’t seem to mind that at all.

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Category: Oh, THAT liberal media.