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This fool violated one of the 10 Commandments at least 32 times. They are Commandments, not guidelines, which suggests a basis for judgement

I’m sure I’ve violated the 10 Commandments at least 32 times. I’m sure a lot of my friends have as well. Your point?

If they ring it 33 times it shows that a loss of a life is still a loss of a life, regardless of how many times he violated the 10 Commandments.

I think it should have been aired, but not over and over again as the media is wont to do to gain ratings.

It needed to be shown to show to many what the face of evil looks like.

Many recognize evil without needing additional information, but in this case, it was needed.

A couple of days ago, I was listening to a local talk radio station (conservative) in which they were taking calls about whether Marquette University (Milwaukee) should have rung a bell in rememberance of the 32 shot, or the 33 (including the killer) who are dead.

It shocked me at how many called in and said they were not in a position to judge, and that the bell should have been rung 33 times, including the killer.

This was before the videos and pictures were shown.

This fool violated one of the 10 Commandments at least 32 times. They are Commandments, not guidelines, which suggests a basis for judgement, so it was shocking to hear how many thought they could not find it within themselves to judge Cho.

I wonder what they think now that the videos and pictures have been shown.

Bill Bennett said on H&C tonight “I wish Mr. Librescu would have carried one of those Romanian pistols”. He also lauded him, the counselor who was killed, and the lady in charge of the VT English department profusely.

No.

NBC gave this cockroach what he wanted most: immortality.

Did you read the “social catastrophe” article on ABC? I thought the psych was right on the mark. It did validate Cho’s hideous act. NBC should retract the vid and take Keith Olbermann off the air as penance.

And I thought it was a magazine of bullets, not a clip.

Otherwise, I still bow to you as the allah, the all-seeing.

(Please don’t ban me.)

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And that can be 100% accomplished without showing the actual tape. Post a transcript on a web site.
Fatal on April 19, 2007 at 8:12 PM

Transcript doesn’t do it. I am interested in his mannerisms and demeanor as well. If I ever encounter a person like this in my life, I don’t want to look back on my interactions with that person with the regret of not having realized how close to the edge they were without my realizing it.

I do agree, however, that it doesn’t necessarily belong on network news. That’s why I said they should just put it out there on the internet for people to make the free choice of whether or not they want to see it. My point is simply that I want to make that choice for myself–not let the MSM make that choice for me.

As for setting off the nutjobs, I reiterate that the nutjobs who are going to go off will one day explode with or without Cho’s manifesto being available to the public. Cho’s manifesto might, however, shed some light on this kind of personality/mental illness so that concerned citizens might be armed with information that will encourage them to try harder to get help for the next nutjob before it’s too late.

The passengers who refused to fly with the six imams who were behaving suspiciously were armed with information about the kind of behavior Islamic terrorists engage in before an attack. So they defended themselves by reporting the behavior to the appropriate authorities. They were only able to do that because they had useful information–that particular pattern of behavior had been highly publicized by the MSM following 9/11 and subsequent terrorist attacks and attempted attacks. It wasn’t “glorifying” the terrorists to profile them repeatedly on the news–it was providing useful information to the public. More information is almost always good. That’s all I’m saying.

Regardless of whether it was going to be released by NBC or someone else, it was going to get out there sooner or later.

in which the psycho du jour doesn’t a pre-crime sit’n’chat

Make that does a pre-crime sit’n'chat…

Here’s a new exit question: if the media is not as influential as many of us are suggesting, explain this:

Less than seventy years ago, television was barely at an experimental stage and in the United States, radio was the undisputed king of the airwaves. Three out of four families already owned a set (eight million alone were sold in 1936), but as many were to rudely discover, they were not yet fully attuned to the power of this exciting new medium. The wake up call came on the Halloween night of October 1938 when a brilliant young auteur by the name of Orson Welles tapped into the subconscious fears of a nation and convinced thousands of people (perhaps many more) that Martians were invading the United States.

I just want to know what he wrote and said for my own edification, and I don’t see why I shouldn’t be able to have that information if I want it.

And that can be 100% accomplished without showing the actual tape. Post a transcript on a web site.

For many of us objecting, it has NOTHING to do with whether we “want” to see the tape or not (so the infantile suggestions to “Turn off the TV or “change the channel” are worthless), its about whether showing it might encourage all those other folks out there with a chip on their shoulders (and there are a LOT of those folks, just read KOS or DU) to do something spectacular (not necessarily mass murder) in order to have their mugs, their words, their own very special “thoughts” displayed for all the world to see on TV, thereby securing their places in the history of media whoredom.

are either going to get help, or they are going to go off someday with or without NBC showing Cho’s manifesto

I agree completely, which is why I said it influences and contributes. NBC and the rest of the media did not and have not and will not cause a tragedy. Contribution to tragedy, in light of already knowing you are contributing, is disgusting and immoral and wrong.

So, given that we know we have such nutjobs in our country and that there is no way to keep them going psy-cho, what do we do? Do we accept this fate and move on? That’s what I’m trying to focus on, solutions.

Can we all agree that at the center of this tragedy is the issue of untreated mental illness?

If you really think the MSM provides you with a “choice” of what to see and what not to see, you are a tad naive.

Fatal on April 19, 2007 at 8:01 PM

I don’t think the media gives me choice. Because of the internet, though, I have the choice of viewing most information that I want, regardless of what the MSM decides they want me to see. In the case of the Cho manifesto, however, a mainstream media outlet has exclusive access to something I want to see, and they are choosing to release just bits and pieces of it–all heavily redacted so that my tender sensibilities won’t be offended or something like that. I am offended because I have grown used to being able to access pretty much any information I want, and now NBC and an easily offended public are keeping me from some information I want. That’s why I think they should just put it out there and let us do with it what we will.

Beginning this morning, we have limited our usage of the video across NBC News, including MSNBC, to no more than 10 percent of our airtime.

When this becomes 10 percent of there airtime it means that they are showing it 6 minutes every hour or 144 minutes in a day.

That is only for ratings.

The media should not choose for us what is appropriate or not for us to see.

Maybe they “should not”, but they certainly do. Every single day THEY decide what they are going to show you and what they are going to bury. The most obvious indicators of just how biased the media is are those things they choose not to cover, not to show and not to publicize.

If you really think the MSM provides you with a “choice” of what to see and what not to see, you are a tad naive.