"Go with it!" shouted the gruff old producer around the wet end of his stogie. He was one of the last who could still remember when telling the truth had at least SOMETHING to do with journalism.
Nah...none of that has anything to do with this Newsbusters find - except that I got jazzed reading it! ABC News Consultant Slams Media Over Video of Va.Tech Killer
Michael Welner, an ABC News consultant and a forensic psychiatrist, appeared on Thursday’s "Good Morning America" to slam the media for gratuitously airing videos sent by deceased mass killer Seung-Hui Cho. Welner even referenced the network frenzy over fired radio host Don Imus by saying, "Just listen, if you can take Imus off the air, you can certainly keep [Cho] from having his own morning show."It may be the murderer's secret why he sent the vids to NBC, but it's certainly no secret why he sent A PACKAGE to a TV NEWS outlet. Assuming he was able to comprehend anything logically, he would have known TV-News doesn't have the self-restraint of a new born puppy!
Earlier in the segment, Welner gave an impassioned plea for the networks to stop airing the killer’s footage:
Michael Welner: "If anybody cares about the victims in Blacksburg and if anybody cares about their children, stop showing this video now. Take it off the internet. Let it be relegated to YouTube. This is a social catastrophe. Showing the video is a social catastrophe. I promise you the disaffected will watch him the way they watched 'Natural Born Killers.' I know. I examine these people. I've examined mass shooters who have told me they've watched 'Natural Born Killers' 20 times. You cannot saturate the American public with this kind of message."
"everybody else pees on the floor so why can't we?
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