The news media is trying...
...to justify the airing of the tapes sent by the nut who killed 32 innocent people this past Monday. Their agument is that we can learn about the murderer himself. I don't know what more I could learn...the tapes just confirmed what we all knew, the guy was nuts. He wasn't "innocent but guilty" nuts or "not guilty by reason of insanity" nuts ...he was just a plain, everyday, dangerous nut who lost his last marble.
I remember the days when a freaked out murderer couldn't get a manifesto published unless the cops wanted it done for a very good reason. Somehow we got by without bearing witness to the rantings of any homicidal maniacs. I wonder why they think that we should know about it now?
If the media would stop paying so much attention to the murderer and a bit more to the victims, younger nuts-in-waiting will have fewer "heroes" to refer to when committing mass murder.
Bonnie and Clyde killd a lot of people as well and they're almost romanticized while we know nothing about the victims. I wonder how long it takes for murderers to turn into folk heroes for some people? This particular nut (whose name I won't even use) has the title for the most people murdered at one time in America. How long before some other put upon kid tries to break that record in honor of this nut? I shudder to think.
...to justify the airing of the tapes sent by the nut who killed 32 innocent people this past Monday. Their agument is that we can learn about the murderer himself. I don't know what more I could learn...the tapes just confirmed what we all knew, the guy was nuts. He wasn't "innocent but guilty" nuts or "not guilty by reason of insanity" nuts ...he was just a plain, everyday, dangerous nut who lost his last marble.
I remember the days when a freaked out murderer couldn't get a manifesto published unless the cops wanted it done for a very good reason. Somehow we got by without bearing witness to the rantings of any homicidal maniacs. I wonder why they think that we should know about it now?
If the media would stop paying so much attention to the murderer and a bit more to the victims, younger nuts-in-waiting will have fewer "heroes" to refer to when committing mass murder.
Bonnie and Clyde killd a lot of people as well and they're almost romanticized while we know nothing about the victims. I wonder how long it takes for murderers to turn into folk heroes for some people? This particular nut (whose name I won't even use) has the title for the most people murdered at one time in America. How long before some other put upon kid tries to break that record in honor of this nut? I shudder to think.
posted by Meg Kelso | 9:43 AM
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I agree completely! Don't give him the airtime. I don't give a shit about his feelings, or ideas, or anything at all about him. Instead of airing his crap and making him a folk hero for terrorists in training, let's focus on the victims. They were good kids, improving their lives, doing good things. They all have stories, let's hear those.
I'm also wondering: who TOOK the pictures and videos? Let's find out and let him/her explain to the victim's families why they helped him. Preferably in a locked room.
Last note: If the shooter was a white male, you know his name, hometown, etc. would have been released to the media asap and someone would have been interviewing his grandma on her front porch within minutes. How come we haven't heard about his family? How come they didn't realize their son was losing his mind? It's not like it happened all in one day.
It's a shame, how the world we're leaving our kids is getting shittier by the week. Morals and personal responsibility are now 4 letter words.
Ok, my soapbox is getting creaky, I'll get off now.
It may be creaky but it's made out of sound wood. We already have another nut saying that he can beat this nut....his goal is 100. The InuBomber got his manifesto published only AFTER the cops told the newspaper that it would help them. They knew better than to do it otherwise. Journalism schools must have truly changed. I remember when they had certain standards. Now I can't tell the real news from National Enquirer news.
Meg
Isn't today's version of the National Enquirer considered to be a highly conservative newspaper?
Today's National Enquirer is "The Weekly World News". Check out its headlines:
-Bigfoot Tracks Indicate Salsa Lessons
-Man makes $275,000 a year as street beggar
-Space alien puts up earth up for sale
- Lobster in hot water after biting off chef's finger
and
-How to pay yourself $200 for free
"-How to pay yourself $200 for free"
Hey doll, could you elaborate on this one?
Meg
Meg,
Sadly, I believe that campus had every indication that this nut job was going to committ murder.
All the warning signs were indeed there.
I don't know exactly what should have been done to prevent this except jail him for the stalking of two former girlfriends.
Unfortunately, now it is too late.
I can't even imagine being a student there on one of the floors, hearing shots and not knowing exactly what was going on, finding out later that roomates was being murdered on the floor below.
The media does this all the time with crimes like this: they give the most aire time to the criminal and never to the vicitms.
Then they beat it deader than a horse buried underneath the ground.
However, CNN's website is going a great job of posting memorial sites for the people shot.
This loss of innocence is always hard to take in.
Leslie
lol, I'd love to elaborate on the article, but I haven't read it. I just saw the newspaper on a supermarket stand, and laughed at its headline.
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