Someone explain to me the point of showing the VA Tech killers video? Looks to me it was revealed for entertainment factor. Makes me sick to my stomach...
There was a psychiatrist on Good Morning America that shot down the networks for showing it. I don't blame him. Kids don't need to see that.
I dont see what the big deal is? I mean, its a reality, it happend, you cant change that now. The kids see much worse on the news, in movies or on TV. I understand that it's more personal to them, ...
Yeah, but I think they should limit it to just talking about it. Showing a psycho rant in a video is the same as showing a kid a movie about a serial killer that is graphic. At least thats the wa...
i don't know about there but here we've always been exposed to things like that on the news. I can see your point tho. they do show WAY too much & they live for exposing someone else's misfortune...
Yeah. I just can't remember anything recently like that. I was shocked they put it on.
i was like in high school still, i think, when they were showing this standoff and the guy turned and shot himself....live on the news.
I think brotherman's beef is that, while of course these things happen in the world and can't be avoided, he doesn't want his kids to be exposed to these things needlessly.
I can see where he's coming from; you could easily say that the media is glorifying him by showing the stuff. Does the general public need to see his manifesto and video tapes? What do we gain from it?
It's like when they show Al Qaeda or Bin Laden tapes on the news. It may be interesting to some, and certainly help ratings, but if I had children, I don't see any reason why I would want them to see that sort of thing.
ooh totally i think that they are glorifying it and posting all the "bad" or "scary" pics to get people to check it out.
I feel bad for this kid, he obviously had ALOT of issues, he didnt even really say what he was upset about... just a buncha weird ramblings.
yeah the kid was obviously sick and in need of help that he didn't get