On Google.com a video broadcasted by Fox News reporting on NBC’s presentation has received 21,892 hits. In this feed they mention the Columbine murderers and martyr syndrome. In yet another Google.com feed that someone uploaded from the NBC broadcast it received an astonishing 286,588 hits. Why are that many people watching that feed?
There can be multiple reasons as to why people are choosing to log on and view these feeds. But one thought does bother me is that maybe, just maybe there is an angry person or persons who are also suffering any number of mental illnesses that are drinking up the words of Cho Seung-Hui. Within the hundreds of thousands that have already viewed these feeds; how many have become ticking time bombs as a result?
One must wonder if through the release of these tapes, NBC created a self-fulfilling prophesy in which we shall see another massacre down the road as a result. I remember growing up here on Long Island when in November of 1974 Ronald DeFeo brutally shot and killed his entire family which led to the book The Amityville Horror. What we did not see was any words coming from that deranged killer. I do not think that anyone really wanted to hear why he did it. There was no wall-to-wall coverage of that massacre. We saw the bodies being taken out of the home in body bags and the coffins as they made their way to their final resting place. That was enough for us.
I just do not know what to make of this round-the-clock cable news which runs 365 days a year. Is it truly informing us or is it luring us all into some form of psychosis? Instead of focusing in on the words and images of a killer we should remember the victims more. Maybe NBC news and the rest of the news media should have aired videos of what was lost to us all within the victims. It may have lent itself for all of us to be our brother’s keeper. In hearing of their precious lives and how they lived them that is what we should take away from this story. I felt a sense of comfort when they aired the convocation in which you could see the thousands of lives affected. In hearing many of their fascinating stories, I would rather come away from this tragedy thinking of them instead of Cho Seung-Hui angry words.
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