i-dad5f20da8136f644ff270912db78750-Cho video image.jpg The folks
at NBC News debated for hours what to do with the video they had
received from Cho Seung-Hui, who killed 32 people on the
Virginia Tech campus. Eventually, they decided it was prudent to
show some of the video on TV and post some snippets online.
After an outcry against glorifying the killer, MSNBC decided to
stop showing the footage wall-to-wall, and there still hasn’t
been a full release of the contents of that package.  So I
decided to put the question to you, MediaShift readers: Do you
think NBC should release the entire video online to let people
decide on their own whether to watch it? Most journalism experts
believe that the video is newsworthy and should have been shown
on TV and online. “The job of the journalist is not to protect
us from the truth; it’s to tell us the truth, no matter how
repugnant it is,” Poynter Institute ethicist Al Thompkins told
the Los Angeles Times.  Be that as it may, you were largely
split over the idea of air