ABC's Charles Gibson After Pictures of the Victims: 'Those Are the Faces to Remember'

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ABC anchor Charles Gibson concluded Thursday's World News by showing, as viewers heard Amazing Grace, photos of all 32 of those murdered Monday at Virginia Tech. When the photo array ended, Gibson simply and powerfully observed: “Those are the faces to remember.”

Gibson had teased his April 19 broadcast by asking, “Tonight, the words of the Virginia Tech killer trigger fierce new debate: Did the media go too far in airing the killer's hate?” He then opened: “There is new outrage tonight over the tragedy at Virginia Tech and it is directed at the media. The words of the Virginia Tech killer were plastered across newspapers and Web sites today after they started airing on television last night. Raising questions: Do we learn anything seeing the hate of Seung-Hui Cho? Or do we simply play into his sick fantasies? There has been intense reaction on the Virginia Tech campus, among victims' families, indeed reaction all across the country.”


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I've seen some criticism of C

I've seen some criticism of Charlie on this blog but i must say he has made us loyal  viewers in our household.   He is far less left of center than the other two politcal hacks.  Indeed, he is winning in the ratings, perhaps, because he is playing in the middle in a fashion similar to FoxNews.  I would encourage all bloggers here to give his show a chance.

I won't go so far as to call myself a "loyal" viewer, but

I won't go so far as to call myself a "loyal" viewer, but I've been surprised at the reduced leftist ideology from Gibson.  Hope he keeps it up.

As for the photos of the murdered students and teachers, my paper did a spread with short bios of each.  Very moving. 

BTW, I've been successful in avoiding anything that sick bastard produced.   My memory IS of the students and teachers.

Kudos to Gibson

We need to give credit when credit is due. Congratulations Charlie Gibson and ABCNews for a wise editorial decision.

When we've been there, ten-th

When we've been there ten-thousand years
Bright shining as the sun,
We've no less days,
To sing God's praise,
Than when we first begun...

Gibson surely did better th

Gibson surely did better than NBC on this. NBC which stands for "No Brains Collective". Also I'm sure ABC wanted to show that they had more class than NBC and I think they made the right decisions.

I like Charlie Gibson. How ni

I like Charlie Gibson.    ...Debra

It's good that one of the net

It's good that one of the networks did the decent thing. 

Liberalism is a convenient lie.

gibson is doing the bidding o

gibson is doing the bidding of a business, they found out that NBS did a "bad" thing, ( POOR RATINGS) so the next day, they pull this STUNT!

Detonated Plutomium  has a very large carbon footprint.

I guess Charlie never noticed the words were censored

I guess Charlie never noticed the words were censored. There was also an 1800 word paper, or more, in the little packet, and none of that was shared, was it...

A couple minutes of the ten.

So what we have here is the idiot media not knowing wether to show stuff or not, so they coddled up with homeland security and the FBI and agreed on the worst, almost full censorship, barely a dribble of what was there let out.

 Of course, the babbling masses have had a cow over it, anyway.

 They now have a hero killer on their minds. He's a hero to someone, only none of the shrieking, screaming kookballs knows to whom.

 Not one said, hey, I bet Cho would be really pissed off right now, since his little vid got cut to shreds and noone has seen all his paperwork he mailed in as well.

 Nope, the media supposedly played perfectly into the little killers wishes. No blind raging emotional stupidity here folks. Move along, move along.

Probably the only leftists who realize what has really happened are the Hollywood movie producers, after having their films chopped up and censored. They might have a clue. Not the deranged psychotic blabbering emotionally charged idiot masses though. Nope, to them, Cho's wishes were carried out.

Far less than 20%, but we have a raging loonfest of bloodthirsty wackos proclaiming their moral superiority and demanding lawsuits and full censorship to save the society from the next one. We're responsible, thinking people, you see. Then they turn on a hero show, A&E's Manson and play their Beattles record backwards, just to check, like they have once every few years for some time.

Sport, this is what it comes

Sport, this is what it comes down to:  Do you let some nut case get his 15 minutes of fame by killing decent people and then give him air time to vent his vile shit or do you cut him out of humanity.  Let me help you make a good choice, if you give him air time you encourage other losers to do the same thing.  Freedom of speech doesn't have to be suicidal.  We don't have to help them to kill us.  As Robert Heinlein said, the only real crime is stupidity and NBC was stupid and therefore criminal by giving this piece of shit the time of day.  I will remember when the next copy cat strikes.

This tragedy hit home when I

This tragedy hit home when I saw the the name and the picture of my shipmate's (co-worker) daughter.  The broadcast also showed an interview clip with the father forgiving the killer for what he did that tragic day. ABC did the right thing indeed...

The MSM is extending the pain

The MSM is extending the pain of the killings at VaTech.  They should've packed up their trailers and departed the campus no later than noon Wednesday.

Instead, they hang around, shoving microphones in the faces of any student who'll talk about what they were doing Monday, or how they feel today.  Then NBC, followed by the others, complete the killer's plan post-mordem by airing his incoherent rants and photos.

As a graduate of Virginia Tech, I say it's time to move on.  Those who were most affected by Monday's events --- the wounded, the friends and family of the victims --- will continue to grieve, and we can only comfort them with our prayers and our deeds.  It will take time to heal those wounds --- physical, spiritual, and emotional. 

But for everyone else, it's time to get back on the horse.  The MSM circus needs to clear out of Blacksburg and let that community get back to business, and we all need to move on.

Finally news media focuses on

Finally news media focuses on the victim and not the killer... Why must the audience have to plug into the mindset of psychotics and ignore the innocent?

Imagine reading only about the victim, what more useful information is necessary?

JDW

News media: Scoreboard for terrorists

If you are going to whine about spelling... get a life

Only the video part of the

Only the video part of the mindset, however. The media blackout continues (Day 5...) for the pharmaceutical part of this story, but (coughViagraCialisLevitracough) I'm sure it's not due to mediabias one could simply follow the money to find. It must be due to random chance (and all those TV ads Walther & Glock are constantly-running) that we know the exact brand, model, and caliber of both pistols but nothing whatsoever about the antidepressant drugs which have coincidentally been involved (google, if you doubt me, is your friend) in so-many other school shootings.
JMR

ABC is simply news media. Unl

ABC is simply news media. Unlike news media, last night they focused on the actual victim, not the killer.

JDW

News media: Scoreboard for terrorists

If you are going to whine about spelling... get a life

I just found another blog f

I just found another blog from yesterday which compliments this very well.

JDW

News media: Scoreboard for terrorists

If you are going to whine about spelling... get a life