[goodsamaritan]

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I have to agree. I heard conservaitve radio talk show host Hugh Hewitt castigate NBC for making hay out of this. I doubted he was right.

But I just watched Brian Williams and he was saying they would show more of the tapes on "Today" tomorrow morning. A teaser for this pornography! How disgusting.

If I were in charge of NBC news, I would go on the Nightly News and say the killer wanted the tapes and pictures to be shown. We, at NBC, will never do such a thing. We have turned everything over to the FBI and local authorities for them to use in their invetigative work, and we will make the materials available to the families of the victims. We will only release these materials to the public if the families are unanimous in their wish that we do so.

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Honestly, I don't really give a [censored] what the families think about this particular issue. I am an interested in seeing what was going through the killers head. If the families are upset by the videos, they don't need to watch them. Whether or not I see the videos has virtually zero effect on the families.

Any time somebody does something evil on a fairly large or public scale, they are going to get a lot more fame then they deserve. But so what? We shouldn't deprive ourselves of information just because we don't want to give the killer the satisfaction. The killer is dead anyway, and since I don't believe in any kind of afterlife, the killer is not benefitting from these videos being shown at all.

Criticizing NBC for profiting from these videos is like criticizing the History Channel for profiting from a documentary about Hitler.