I’ve got some huge issues with NBC news…
Wake up…
make breakfast….
pick up news paper….
get SLAMMED with an image that NBC News say it received from Cho Seung-Hui, the shooter in the Virginia Tech attacks.
They say it was ‘a multi-media self-portrait of destruction.’ He’s posing like 33 people likely saw him moments before they died. There is a burning rage in his eyes, but a strange sadness to his face as well. He felt he only had one way out, and stated that ‘my blood is on your hands and will never wash off.’
You can say, that he was obviously a madman. I probly wouldnt disagree…
But is NBC mad for releasing these pictures??
Even after his death Cho Seung-Hui is getting what he wanted. His said his only option was death, but he chose to go down the way he did, and to take so many young people with so much to live for out with him…
I’ve really got some huge issues with this. It’s touching a nerve that is very open to me.
Like everytime I see a news-report shows families at a cemetery, broadcasting their final moments with a loved one… or when you hear the stories of some of the surviving students of the VT shooting who had there contact information taken off facebook, and now are flooded with prying emails to ‘tell US your story’.
Ya.. I realize they chose to put the information online, in public… it’s the lack of respect that is bothering me here… If these students really felt the desire or need to share a very tramatic and life-changing story to the world, I’m sure they would find an outlet to do that.
I have all these thoughts still processing in my mind… havnt even finished my morning coffee yet.. but I have the overwhelming feeling that this is just not ok.
Did any of these families really need a startliing image like this one added to their nightmares?
Does the media really have a right -0r a responsibilty- to show every detail of every video shot on every cellphone at VT that day? Would there have been an outcry of people demanding to see this picture if NBC had decided that it should be kept private as long as possible out of respect for the victims and their loved ones?
If it was your sister/brother/best friend/coworker being dragged, bloody and motionless from a crime scene by a team of SWAT would you want the world to see it broadcast once every five minutes for a week, and once every news story regarding the incident for a year, and maybe three or four times every anniversary of their death, and available for viewing or download on youtube whenever someone needs a good dose of reality?
Just some thoughts… might add more… off to get a second coffee…
April 20, 2007 at 4:23 am
the news is all about sensationalism. its not about the actual news anymore. i know theres porbably alot of ppl that disagree with me but its true. and in all honesty how many copycat senarios are goingto come from this. i remember when columbine occurred there was many more similar situations that arose afterwards, and as a result more sensless deaths. i havent seen the TV news of this latest situation, i have no interest. the news is out there for the ratings and such. theydont care aobut the families left behind to cope.
I ran into someone once a while back who was involved in a similarly sensationalized story of a loved one that died. and one thing she said to me was that the whole coping with her grief and going through the funerals etc was all the more difficult with all the media. her grief and loss was essentially forced into the public eye. we all have loved ones die at some point in our lives. its hard enough to cope with the loss of the loved one. the media needs to back off and give the grieving families their space. if they want to come forward and tell their story thats their own business. yes telling the world that this tragedy happened is news but tell it and get on with life. let the families alone.
ok i hsould stop now, Julie this whole situation with the media and stuff ticks me off too. I’m done my rant.
dani