Thursday, April 19, 2007  Serial Enablers  As everyone now
knows, the Blacksburg Killer, on the day of the massacre, mailed
a set of videos containing his rantings, and a "manifesto" to
NBC News during the two-hour lull between his shootings. So,
what does NBC do with the manifesto and tapes -- products of a
raving murderous lunatic ? Of course we know -- it broadcasts
them on The NBC Nightly News. Never mind that it gives the
Killer just whnt he wanted: attention to adorn the bloody
conclusion of his sorry life, complete with rapt audiences of
other weirdos someplace no doubt "inspired" by the lunatic's
work. The nutjob wanted to make a "statement," so he sat down,
did his rave and went merrily on his way shooting and killing,
cause he knew full-well he'd find some media enablers. See,
there's no way this wasn't being broadcast -- Jesus Christ on a
Starship with an order from the President couldn't stop it --
after all, this is news. It's also, as a psychiatrist put it to
NBC's crosstown rival ABC, a "social