Thursday, April 19, 2007

Video Choices

ABC News: Psychiatrist: Showing Video Is 'Social Catastrophe': "April 19, 2007 — The videos of Seung-hui Cho, the man who fatally shot 32 people at Virginia Tech on Monday and then killed himself, shouldn't have been released because they don't offer the public any greater understanding of the gruesome crime, said Michael Welner, a forensic psychiatrist and ABC News consultant, on 'Good Morning America' today.

'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,' Welner said. 'This is a social catastrophe. Showing the video is a social catastrophe...'"

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