Once again the main stream media is screwing things up.  How many stories have you seen about this unfortunate TV reporter and her camera man that were shot to death during a live broadcast?  I can understand why this story is impossible to ignore.  But the problem is that they are also doing a lot of coverage on the shooter.  His picture has been posted all over the place making him famous for all the wrong reasons.   Without a doubt there are other nut cases all over the country watching this and saying:  “what a great idea.”  It won’t be long before someone tries doing this to another TV reporter on live TV.  It would have been far better if they had refused to show his picture or even mention his name.  He does not deserve this kind of attention.  He deserved to be ignored.

The sports broadcasters have figured this one out.  If you are watching a sport broadcast and someone runs out on the field odds are the broadcasters will not show it.  They will deliberately point the cameras in another direction and refuse to give this person undeserved air time.  This strategy has worked and these incidents are becoming increasingly rare.  It is too bad the main stream media has not figured this out.

If I were the general manager for a TV station or a broad casting network I would already be taking precautions.  I would seriously considering sending out an armed guard every time there was a remote broadcast.  It is a shame that this is necessary, but it is necessary.  This will happen again and the main stream media deserves some of the blame.  If we keep glorifying the wrong people we just get more of them.  Sometimes silence is golden.

TDM