Originally Posted by Dave Gill
News is news.


I respectfully disagree, Dave. Even with 24 hr news, there is still far more going on in the world than can be reported. So someone has to decide what they are going to report.

As Jody indicated above, there are other newsworthy stories that take a backseat when something like this happens.

Certainly reporting on these shootings was news.

But putting the shooter's homemade videos up is not news. Even the authorities have said they don't say anything revealing about the killer.

I made my previous post early in the day yesterday when his videos were up on every news website. I NEVER post stuff like that but this was just way over the top. I guess if a laid back guy like me got upset, others would too and I was interested to see as the day went on yesterday how the various outlets started back-tracking on the videos. Apparently they ran some polls and found that the vast majority of the public was against showing the videos.

If you have to run polls to decide what is news, your soul has already been sold...

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