Thursday, April 19, 2007

Is the Media cashing in on the VT Tragedy?



A friend of mine e-mailed this to me today:

In today’s New York Times published from a Video Message the V.T. murderer had sent to NBC between the initial shooting and the subsequent mass massacre at the university:

“You have vandalized my heart, raped my soul and torched my conscience,” the gunman, Cho Seung-Hui, said in one video mailed shortly before the shooting at a classroom and his suicide. “Thanks to you, I die like Jesus Christ to inspire generations of the weak and the defenseless people.”


That is quite some inspiration indeed?


He was also known to photograph female students from below the desks. That shows again a sick and curious obsession here.


How can we ever stop these kind of barbaric acts from happening again? I wish I had all the answers. One way to help is what the Arizona State Legislature has done. They passed a Bill that will allow law enforcement officials to wear weapons on school campus'. What else can we do?

Growing up here in Phoenix in the 1960's, we knew all our neighbors. Mayberry? Not quite, but almost. In today's fast paced society, you don't get to know your neighbors at all. Friends of mine who live in NY after 9/11 tell me they talk to EVERYONE when they go out in public. They constantly keep their eye's open for anything out of the ordinary.


The killer's past showed many red flags. Society needs to notice people who show these tendenancies. It has been said that he was 're-in acting' scenes from a movie called "Oldboy", a 2003 South Korean movie that was an award winner from the Cannes Film Festival.


The MSM has tried to show all this tragedy, without dramatizing it until yesterday when NBC received the package from the Killer. This was posted on the Drudge Report today:


FLASH: RATINGS BLOWOUT FOR NBC NEWS... 7.4 RATING/15 SHARE FOR BRIAN WILLIAMS AND CHO TAPES, NIELSEN OVERNIGHTS SHOW... 6.2/12 FOR ABC 'WORLD NEWS'... CBS COURIC AT 4.2/8...

Is this what its all about? Ratings?

Our thoughts & prayers go out to all the victims & thier families, and the students & staff of Virginia Tech....

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