Virginia Tech Coverage
Paul in Cannon Beach
4,703 Posts
I thought maybe we learned something from Columbine but apparently not.
The evil coward that shot 32 students and teachers is getting his 15 minutes of fame.
His photo and troubled story are everywhere. CNN is even posting a link to two violent plays this loser wrote.
The problem is, there are other losers out there that take note. If I get a gun and shoot a bunch of people, I'll get the attention I so desperately want. Maybe my diary will go on CNN. People will know my name.
I know the public wants to know every detail of this pathetic person's life but these shootings need to stop. Giving the killers infamy only encourages future incidents.
We should publish no name. No photo. No life story. Give them nothing. No 15 minutes of infamy. Nothing. NOTHING.
Focus on the victims. Tell their story. Show their photos. Honor their memory by protecting future victims from this ever happening again.
The evil coward that shot 32 students and teachers is getting his 15 minutes of fame.
His photo and troubled story are everywhere. CNN is even posting a link to two violent plays this loser wrote.
The problem is, there are other losers out there that take note. If I get a gun and shoot a bunch of people, I'll get the attention I so desperately want. Maybe my diary will go on CNN. People will know my name.
I know the public wants to know every detail of this pathetic person's life but these shootings need to stop. Giving the killers infamy only encourages future incidents.
We should publish no name. No photo. No life story. Give them nothing. No 15 minutes of infamy. Nothing. NOTHING.
Focus on the victims. Tell their story. Show their photos. Honor their memory by protecting future victims from this ever happening again.
Comments
But again, good point.
>handling tragedy.
Yeah! You don't see Amish news crews and helicopters at the scene!
Killing someone to make ourselves feel better is terrible, whether you manage to take 1 or 30 out, and whether you take them out all at once or one at a time.
Let's find another way of dealing with this tragedy besides sensationalizing it. Let's figure out what we can do when all the warning signs are there, as with this kid, and act on it. We don't need to hear about it on every news channel all day. We need to find a way to find and reach those people who think their personal pain or pleasure is more important than the lives of others.
jmo
Nae
I agree with Nae/Nae all life is important. If this would just wake us up to the need to end violence that is one thing but rather it just sells papers and networks.
Anyone still think that press coverage and instant noteriety isn't a major motivation for these sick, evil crimes?
Why bother trying to gain attention by working hard and doing something with your life when you can get FAR more by buying a gun and killing innocent people.
[url]http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/VATech/story?id=3056168&page=1[/url]
I encourage everyone to contact the big news stations. Voice your concerns. I was so disgusted with them last night. They have nothing new to talk about. It's the same garbage over and over. Look at msnbc.com's home page. Front and center is this guy's picture aiming two guns!! It's almost ironic. These same "journalists" are the ones harping about this young generation. How they "don't get it", "it's all about me", "they're so coddled and spoiled". etc.
However, I feel these students, along with the Rutgers team, have displayed a level of commen sense and maturity that clearly we don't have. These "news" stations couldn't wait to place blame, couldn't wait to get traumatized kids on TV, couldn't wait to talk about the mother they just saw collapse on the floor when she learned her only child had been killed. I wanted to jump through the TV and smack Nancy Grace two nights ago. Can't we have at least a few moments to digest what just happened? Process our feelings? Every troubled, impressionable teenager is reading this crap and looking at these photos thinking this guy is some kind of hero or that he is so cool. He deserves nothing. He made a choice, a premeditated choice I might add, to take as many lives as possible. Why? We'll never really know the answers. He is a coward and should not be glorified.
By putting this crap on the air, we are virtually guaranteeing it will happen again. I totally agree with HrinGA.
Somewhere out there, some disaffected, angry young man is taking notes.
This will happen again. There are just too many troubled people out there who desperately want the world to pay attention to them.
The crime horrified me. The coverage has made me sick. I wont watch it anymore.
The guy went on to say that this kid was rambling and obviously confused and didn't know what he was talking about, etc etc etc.
Then one of the news achors asked if he thought Cho expected his 'news release' to be analyzed like this or just read. The guy said absolutely not. That Cho just expected his 15 minutes of fame and for someone to listen to him, yada yada yada.
Was this conversation supposed to make us think the networks were forced to show us what they had and are doing their best not to cause any future outbreaks of violence? I think if any kid out there is messed up enough to do something like this, then he probably believed that Cho actually made sense.
I am disgusted by all I see on tv and read in the news about this. They are tired of reporting on the war and anxious for any sensational story. I mean, now that Anna Nicole Smith is dead and her daughter's father revealed, what else can they talk about? This competition to get the news out first is the real problem. I see no solution, however, except to not watch. Unfortunately, the only one I can control enough to enforce that option is myself. Oh wait; if that were true then I wouldn't have watched this morning. It's truly a sad, sad world sometimes.
Nae