Saturday, April 21, 2007

NBC (Nutcase Broadcast Channel)

It doesn't matter what side of the political spectrum people fall in, they are all in agreement that NBC should not have aired the Cho video.

Tim Rutten: "[NBC's] statement is bovine excrement. Look, the only thing this does is to demonstrate that he was insane. Well, none of us had any doubt about that."

Howard Kurtz: "In all the years I've been chronicling the media, I have rarely seen the tidal wave of resentment that has washed over television organizations that showed the now-infamous Cho video. In the minds of many Americans, this was a horribly offensive act, and no amount of explanation about the obligations of journalism is going to change that view."

Mark Steyn: "NBC is fulfilling the killer’s last request. That’s disgusting. That’s disgusting, because in effect, you have colluded in this kind of show of slaughter that he’s concocted, and I think that’s disgusting for NBC."

Mickey Kaus: "NBC is now the go-to site for serial killers who have videos."

Hugh Hewitt: "In a country of 300 million, NBC will find some defenders, but the deep and wide disgust will not shift in the weeks and months ahead, but only harden. When in a few months, or a year or two the next maniac sends the next video of his mayhem, see if Steve Capus is still going to be defending the decision he and his colleagues made to inject poison into the information pipes. Their shame is not only in the fact that are they the most exploitative and callous businessmen in the history of broadcast news. Far worse, they are accomplices to murder, for as Mickey Kaus said yesterday, it "is almost inevitable" that there will be future victims 'who will be dead because NBC published this.'"

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

You're right to know supercedes your right to exist.