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Koo Kooky Cho

As anyone know by now the murderer of all the students at Virginia Tech was a kook. He had a history of mental illness and was deemed to be a danger to himself and others. So how does our society handle a person who was diagnosed as a menace? Leave him among the people so that when he snaps he can take a bunch of them with him.

Kooky Cho had enough presence of mind to stop between murders and mail off a package to NBC News. This package contained a written diatribe and a video tape that depicts the rambling nut talking about the deed he was about to commit. The latest reports indicate that NBC News agonized over whether to run this story but I imagine they did not agonize that greatly. They made copies of the documents and then turned them over to police. The question then became, should they air the video? There are some at VT who are extremely upset at NBC for airing the video before the dead have even been buried. There are others who said it was probably too soon but that it should eventually be aired. I don’t care if they air it or not because the TV has an off button and channel changer if you do not want to see it. But, NBC should not try telling us they had any obligation to get it out because it is news. They should not tell us how they have an obligation to report what they get. They have set a precedent in the past.

Was it not NBC that had the interview of Juanita Broaddrick in which she told of her rape by Bill Clinton? Didn’t they hold that for five weeks or so? NBC, should not ever discuss obligations to report the news as it breaks because it has already proved that it is incapable of doing so.