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Originally posted by pwd72s
.... all of the mainstream media is "blood dancing"...dancing in the blood of the victims in order to get ratings...so they can charge more for their over the counter medicine ads. "If it bleeds, it leads", right? The only people this footage could help are the pros who analyze such crazies, in the hope of spotting them in the future. We, the great unwashed? We watch out of morbid curiosity...I don't see a damned thing political about the original post...

I think we can all agree that NBC played the tapes for profit, not (even though tabs wants to believe it) in order for the public to "understand" the killer. People around him knew he was whacked and psychotic. Teachers (at least one) wanted him out of her class because of the stuff he wrote. BUT and I mean BUT the networks wouldn't play it unless there were people who watch it to give them those ratings.

So, while one may complain about the profit driven nature of corporations - whether or not what they do is "ethics driven", what you come back to, is that the enemy is us. Us - who watch Jerry Springer and relish schadenfreude. The corps give us what we want. So until we all stop watching this stuff and tune in to only progressive family shows and newscasts with the emphasis on "little johnny helped grandma kettle across the street today" we'll keep getting more of the same. And since we saw the one on the guy who killed 30, we won't care until someone kills 40 or 50. Our choice.