Comments on: Blogger Predicts VA Tech Shooting In March? http://donklephant.com/2007/04/19/blogger-predicts-va-tech-shooting-in-march/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:24:43 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: dj http://donklephant.com/2007/04/19/blogger-predicts-va-tech-shooting-in-march/comment-page-1/#comment-311226 dj Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:24:39 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2007/04/19/blogger-predicts-va-tech-shooting-in-march/#comment-311226 I've not watched even one minute of TV coverage of this event, and every day I hear something else that makes me glad I haven't. If we would stop watching, they would stop airing. I’ve not watched even one minute of TV coverage of this event, and every day I hear something else that makes me glad I haven’t.

If we would stop watching, they would stop airing.

]]> By: DosPeros http://donklephant.com/2007/04/19/blogger-predicts-va-tech-shooting-in-march/comment-page-1/#comment-310595 DosPeros Thu, 19 Apr 2007 17:40:38 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2007/04/19/blogger-predicts-va-tech-shooting-in-march/#comment-310595 NBC could not have been more irresponsible or greedy. President of NBC Steve Campus said, "We tried to be sensitive to the families involved and to the investigation," Capus said in an interview. While it is "possible" that some relatives of the 32 students shot to death Monday may say that the network is giving the killer the platform he wanted, "they also may say, 'We want to know why. We need to know what was in his head, what drove him to do this.' This is a portrait of a killer." See Washington Post. It is not a “portrait.� It is SHOW: written, directed, and starred-in by the killer. Why confuse reality with the Cho Show? Why give him that respect? Thousands of sad, disgruntled kids make weird, morbid poems about how life sucks – what do they have to do to get attention – go on a killing spree? Thanks NBC, thanks a lot. How does his sophomoric and banal “media manifesto� help anything? We all know what a car wreck looks like! IT ADDS NOTHING! The Cho Show didn't add the slightest margin of useful information. All it did was encourage copycats. Thanks again. One Word for NBC: Greed. There was no duty to the public here. If the message had some meaningful connection, then maybe – but airing this was pornographic. It adds nothing to our understanding, to our lives, to our safety. It merely gives attention to the evil that is seeking attention. And it increases the grief of the families and friends of the victims. Of course, everyone is going to watch it, except the most disciplined. I did, and just like porno, I wish I didn't afterwards. It made me feel sick and used. Human instinct will demand a one-time viewing. Freak shows appeal to some base human instinct, but not a good one. We all have a little morbid fascination – seen any good car accidents lately? That is why it was all too easy for NBC to air this garbage. It was a guaranteed easy ratings spike - for a channel that needs all the ratings-spikes it can get. I should just pick on NBC, although they could have stopped it. All of these cable channels are running this and everybody is watching it. Make no mistake about who is responsible for the next one - we all are. NBC could not have been more irresponsible or greedy.

President of NBC Steve Campus said, “We tried to be sensitive to the families involved and to the investigation,” Capus said in an interview. While it is “possible” that some relatives of the 32 students shot to death Monday may say that the network is giving the killer the platform he wanted, “they also may say, ‘We want to know why. We need to know what was in his head, what drove him to do this.’ This is a portrait of a killer.” See Washington Post.

It is not a “portrait.â€Â? It is SHOW: written, directed, and starred-in by the killer. Why confuse reality with the Cho Show? Why give him that respect? Thousands of sad, disgruntled kids make weird, morbid poems about how life sucks – what do they have to do to get attention – go on a killing spree? Thanks NBC, thanks a lot. How does his sophomoric and banal “media manifestoâ€Â? help anything? We all know what a car wreck looks like! IT ADDS NOTHING! The Cho Show didn’t add the slightest margin of useful information. All it did was encourage copycats. Thanks again.

One Word for NBC: Greed. There was no duty to the public here. If the message had some meaningful connection, then maybe – but airing this was pornographic. It adds nothing to our understanding, to our lives, to our safety. It merely gives attention to the evil that is seeking attention. And it increases the grief of the families and friends of the victims.

Of course, everyone is going to watch it, except the most disciplined. I did, and just like porno, I wish I didn’t afterwards. It made me feel sick and used. Human instinct will demand a one-time viewing. Freak shows appeal to some base human instinct, but not a good one. We all have a little morbid fascination – seen any good car accidents lately? That is why it was all too easy for NBC to air this garbage. It was a guaranteed easy ratings spike – for a channel that needs all the ratings-spikes it can get.

I should just pick on NBC, although they could have stopped it. All of these cable channels are running this and everybody is watching it. Make no mistake about who is responsible for the next one – we all are.

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