April 19 - NBC, the Official Network of Homicidal Maniacs

I’m STILL PEEVED about how the news media covered the shootings at Virginia Tech.

The homicidal maniac (name withheld on purpose) mailed a package of videos, photos, and text to NBC.

NBC, showing their marketing genius, labeled the package a “Multimedia Manifesto.”

Instead of immediately calling the FBI, NBC made copies of DVD disc and 23 pages of a preformatted document file with text and photographs interspersed.

NBC committed a crime known as “EVIDENCE TAMPERING.”

Not to stop there, NBC showed many of the photos on its newscast. This served to vault NBC into the ratings lead. They were running #2.

The ratings for last night:
NBC NEWS 7.4 RATING/15 SHARE
ABC NEWS 6.2 RATING/12 SHARE
CBS NEWS 4.2 RATING/8.SHARE

NBC News President Steve Capus said last night, he faced a "tough call" in deciding how much of the information to air.

"We tried to be sensitive to the families involved and to the investigation," Capus said in an interview. While it is "possible" that some relatives of the 32 students shot to death Monday may say that the network is giving the killer the platform he wanted, "they also may say, 'We want to know why. We need to know what was in his head, what drove him to do this.' This is a portrait of a killer."

In some of the video, this killer even pays tribute to the Columbine killers.

Hey Mr. Network Exec why not leave the psychoanalysis to the experts. The September 11 calls from the airplanes were recorded between people who subsequently died were never made public. Relatives were permitted to hear the recordings in private. That was an example of decency.

This situation could have been handled the same way.

Some family members of the victims killed at Virginia Tech University canceled interviews with NBC on Thursday because the television network aired video and photographs of the killer it received in the mail. GOOD FOR YOU. I believe you could probably find a lawyer to sue NBC for CAUSING UNDUE EMOTIONAL DISTRESS.

Police handling the investigation into the shooting also expressed disappointment at the airing of the images and rants by of the homicidal maniac. They believe, as do I, that it may only lead to copycats.

Already today, a Florida teen was arrested for sending an email saying that he wanted “to beat the 32 deaths record.” His goal was 100.

Nice job NBC. The NBC president fired Don Imus from their farm team, MSNBC for causing emotional harm to the Rutgers Women's Basketball Team. I wonder who really was harmed the most? NICE DOUBLE STANDARD.

As I noted in yesterday’s blog, they are now known as:

NBC, the Official Network of Homicidal Maniacs, Everywhere.