Thursday, April 19, 2007

 

Dear NBC News,

Tonight I see yourselves and the other major and minor news outlets second-guessing whether or not you should have aired the gunman's video following the Virginia Tech shooting last night.

I want to THANK YOU for airing the videos and pictures and printed ramblings of the killer for a variety of reasons:

1) Because it is your duty to do so. During the Nixon administration when Spiro Agnew was attacking the networks as propaganda arms of communism, our local news station ended each newscast and each news promo with the mantra, "Because you have the right to know". I have always appreciated that exercise of the Constitutional First Amendment. In the 21st Century, rather than becoming a stronger and free-er people, Americans have succumbed to to the liberal nanny-culture that demands that nothing ever be said or aired that might offend ANYONE. There is no Constitutional prohibition against anyone ever being offended. There IS a Constitutional admonition that encourages the media to keep The People informed.

2) Because it shows the shooter for what he is: An evil madman. Nothing more. Not a "victim" of bullying, not a "victim" of poverty, not a "victim" of racism, not a "victim" of medical misdiagnoses. A "victim" only of his own delusions, anger and narcissism.

3) Because it shows that Cho, not his weapons, is the instrument of evil. The liberal media are eager to blame "the American gun culture" for each and every crime upon which they report. Seeing the face and the rantings of this madman show that it is the heart of man, not his tools, that is the culprit.

While you may not agree with my reasonings, I hope that you believe in your collective corporate and individual hearts that airing Cho's messages was the right thing to do.

Sincerely,
****** ******
Oceanside CA

posted by huggy 7:30 PM