Va Tech Shooter sends "images, letter" to NBC

If NBC withheld the video, until a later date, they would have initially been slammed by the industry. But they would have engendered such exceptional good will of the public that they would be become the #1 station for news in America for years to come.

 

Why don't newspapers publish the salaries of its employees? America wants to know

 

No. You assumed that.

Lots of things have been assumed about this case from the start -- many of them wrong.

 

It would cost money.

 

Interesting question. NBC will argue some of the tape is too distrubing to show on network television.

 

You don't think there are people in the public that want to see it?

 

Exactly. Even though I would argue that their only value is the disturbance they cause.

Thus, even if you conclude, as I do, that NBC made the correct decision, you can clearly see that they did so for the wrong reasons. Which, I think, is why so many people have a hard time calling it the right decision. They know it was an accident.

 

In discussing this with a friend of mine who's not a journalist, he poses a good question: "Is the next psycho out there asking himself, 'Can I do better (than Cho) by videotaping the whole rampage?' "

Just the thought of that makes me very uncomfortable, as it should all of us.

 

I don't think you need to do that. At one time, people entered the journalism field with the idea of improving the greater society. Now it seems for too many it has morphed into nothing more than the nuts and bolts--making sure those 5 Ws are answered--regardless of what it does for society.

IMO, we need people who can be journalists and humans simultaneously.

 

It would never make TV. Then again, Fox News is out there.

 

NBC just trickled out this neccessary journalistic discovery. A little on this TV show, a little on that TV show, coming up on Today, a new look a t the tape. You can see more with NBC nightly News with Brian Williams and don't forget exclusive discussion and video tape tape of the gunman's last recorded moments on MSNBC.
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