http://newsboycott.com Mon, 27 Aug 2007 05:16:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Mike Harper It simply made me sick that money always wins. Samantha Wilson they gave the killer what he wanted. Melissa Michelle Fitzgerald NBC, you have given Cho what he wanted. Fame. In doing so, you are victimizing the families and friends who are suffering. How are your ratings? Here in the ... http://newsboycott.com/2007/05/28/nbc-news-petitioner-comments/ Tom Dorsey Your actions disgust me and I will not watch NBC until a formal apology and admission of error is issued. Not only did you sensationalize a mass murderer into a celebrity, but you did so under the guise of true reporting. You sicken me. Linda Keeler disgraceful Jon Ray This ... http://newsboycott.com/2007/05/27/more-petitioner-comments/ George Revelle: Please reconsider not to air. Karen Revelle: Let those family start the healing processes. Robin Ondo: Freedom of the press? What about some compassion for the victims, their families and a grieving nation? NBC had no right to make us all relive this madman's heinous actions over and over again. ... http://newsboycott.com/2007/05/21/nbc-news-boycott-petitioner-comments/ Jonathan Wallace, of the Ethical Spectacle, wrote about VT: What's worse, through the propagation of these pictures, his videos and his writings by the media and the Internet, he got the attention and legitimacy he presumably craved in life. I sympathize with the victim's families who feel that what Mark Twain ... http://newsboycott.com/2007/05/20/more-blogosphere-rxn/ Various members of team news boycott have been travelling and we'll return to normal blog posting shortly. In the meantime, here are more comments from our petition asking Steve Capus and NBC News to apologize. Jessica Nester: NBC should be ashamed for airing the video of Cho and for displaying the ... http://newsboycott.com/2007/05/09/comments-from-nbc-news-boycott-petitioners/ Veteran zinester Jonathan Wallace comes up with an impressively clear-headed analysis of the VT shooter and media response in this month's Ethical Spectacle, Cho, like Al Qaeda suicide operatives, represents a third and very dangerous category. Because the individual is planning to die, the penalties are inapplicable, and there is no ... http://newsboycott.com/2007/05/02/on-the-same-page-_the-ethical-spectacle_s-featured-commentary-for-may-and-newsboycott/ Here are some more reactions to Steve Capus's decision to air Cho's multimedia manifesto. Chris McCauliffe: This is vile and despicable. I hope you have trouble living the rest of your life knowing that you are responsible for fufilling the killer's final twisted wish and that you spread such a message of ... http://newsboycott.com/2007/04/30/comments-from-the-nbc-news-petition/ Here at News boycott, we're pained to see our efforts to help stop media sensationalism and to shame NBC News depicted from time to time as urging "censorship". To point out the difference, we bring to reader attention these two instances in which the media decided that the public ... http://newsboycott.com/2007/04/30/what-makes-the-cut-two-actual-examples-of-media-suppression/