Smasharoo wrote:
NBC just handed every nutjob with a manifesto and some paranoid delusions instructions on how to get their ideas broadcast on the evening news. Kill a bunch of helpless victims.
You're right, what we need is a government agency to sensor news information released to the masses if there is a possibility that it might result in them thinking the wrong things.
Um... Not to be obvious, but the airwaves they are broadcasting on are *already* censored and monitored and regulated and licensed. By the government even!
Would be nice if just once all that control actually resulted in some intelligent choices regarding broadcasting rather then worrying over whether someone said a bad word or called a group of people "nappy headed hos'.
Clearly, what's needed is for Jackson and Sharpton to make a big issue out of this and get NBCs sponsors to pull their advertising so the entire company can no longer afford the priviledge to broadcast. Oddly, I suspect that wont happen...
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If we're lucky it'll only result in a whole bunch of panic and school closures over the next few months. Most likely they will be directly responsible for a goodly number of deaths. I can't think of a more irresponsible act then putting that idiots ranting on the news. It sent *exactly* the wrong message.
You're such an easily brainwashed idiot. If they hadn't broadcast it, you'd be crying that the 'liberal media' was deliberately avoiding doing so for nefarious purpose.
Um. No I wouldn't. I would have applauded NBC for doing the right thing. We already knew who the killer was. We already knew more or less why he did what he did. What they should have done is hand the entire package, unopened and unwatched (and uncopied!) to the FBI. The FBI should have sealed it as evidence. That way the only people who'd ever see his rants would have been some investigators and only to ensure that he acted alone.
The message should be "If you do something like this, we'll lock your precious manifesto in an evidence locker for the next 50 years", not "do this and we'll broadcast your nutball ramblings on the news for a week straight".
Dunno. Just seems like sometimes there's a really clear right thing to do and a really clear wrong thing to do. NBC choose to do the wrong thing.
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Find a @#%^ing ideology all ready. Either you're in favor of a free market for information and news or you're not.
Excuse me? Did I once say that NBC should be charged with a crime? I simply criticized the actions they took. I'm all in favor of a free market solution. Apparently, the families of the victims agree. They have canceled their appearances on NBC over this issue. I would hope that a lot more people follow suit. Unfortunately (as I pointed out earlier), since this wasn't a group of black women who were victimized here, we're unlikey to see the kind of reaction we saw when Imus said three words on his show.
I'm sure you'll agree that one is
vastly worse then the other. At least I would hope you would.
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There was nothing remotely dangerous about broadcasting the things they chose to broadcast. It's not like it was news about the war or the word "sh*t" or something dangerous to people.
Really? Tell that to the half dozen schools that have already recieved credible threats and had to close down over this Smash.
When you pick a dumb position you really don't ***** around, do you?
