I want to applaud our local papers for taking the high road in this matter. Cho should not be allowed to dominate this situation. He doesn't deserve fame. It is a time for healing and showing those pictures would only pour salt open wounds. I just wish the national news scene could see that.

Wow, i can not think of a better thing to do-- what are these papers THINKING???? WHO CARES ABOUT THE KILLER---- ITS THE VICTIMS WHO WE MISS AND LOVE! we need to refocus and stop gloryifying the killer, it was his purpose, and we are pushing it foward.

Fortunately, NBC was able to strike the proper balance between concern for greiving families, the public's right to know and running endless loops of Cho in all his glory.

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The local Virginia papers did absolutely the right thing in not publishing pictures of the murderer. The National Media and my local media are making a hero and martyr out of this evil person. The media should not provide a forum for his hate filled message. My heart aches and I am praying for the families, friends and families involved.

Honestly, I am completely appalled that MSNBC.com would put the killer's self-poised portrait splashed across a double-column area. If MSNBC.com cannot have a little respect for the dead, the least they could do is not promote this type of behavior. To me, this shouts that the killer gets the last word in.

I find it very dishardening to see this 'man', this killer advertised everywhere. I cannot view any page online now without scurring my children out of the room so they do not see the horrible images the media has released from this pkg Cho sent to NBC. The image of Cho pointing a gun at the camera for those viewers, us, to see is as though he wanted us to see what the victims saw before they were killed. It's horrible! I too applaud VA papers for not advertising this man's sickness on the ft. pages for even the children to see.

I am glad someone is finally sensible and responsible about reporting the news instead of trying to see who can be the "grosses". We need to remember the wonderful lives that were cut short and give them the dominate place in this story and not the one who caused all of this pain. We need to pray for the shooter's family along with the families of the dead and wounded from Va Tech. They are suffering too as well as probably feeling some shame and responsibility. This man Cho made a choice not his family.

Hats off to the local papers for showing more sense than the other news medias.

All the other news media should be ashamed of themselves for glorifying this disturbed person for greed.

All of the news media should follow this model. No front page attention to the perpetrator, no live coverage on the television or radio. Front page coverage encourages others to assume their barbarous behavior will garner them the atttention they do not get otherwise. There are other ways to address this issue. I do not mean to lessen the impact of mental illness or societal alienation. We need to deal with it but not this way. A small mention in the back section of why the "experts" think he did what he did and how we can locate and assist these idividuals. But NO front page treatment which should be reserved for the victims, their families, and their communities. "How do we heal from somthing like this", "How do we address the underlying issues and who should do that", "How to we deal with campus vs local and the image of the University/School system". This is not the only college to take the tack we can handle this internally. To much of this goes on. Honor the victims and start working on solutions.

I want to also applaud the paper for not making Cho a hero. This time is about healing. He doesn't need any additional notority. Everyone knows he was truly a sick, sick animal and the focus needs to be on healing. The students and the parents need to be able to grieve without a picture of this monster in every paper or news clip.

I think Cho was a sick and demented person. I am sick to death over this whole incident and can't understand what is happening in this world today. I don't understand the mentality of killing innocent people over your mental illness. Get help or kill yourself. Don't take away someone else's life, someone else's loved one, someone who hasn't yet lived til they are ready to die. I am tired of seeing this killer's face on every news paper, every newscast. How can everybody mourn and move on if the media is going to keep shoving this lunatic in our faces? We have a whole country in mourning over this. My heart is broken and I don't know if my soul will ever be the same. Between the War going on outside of our country and this war of madness within our country I wonder if we will survive. I am frightened for my kids everyday. If the world is this crazy now I can't imagine what it will be like for them later. My heart goes out to all the families who have lost loved one's at VTech and in this senseless world of violence.

yes, these local papers did the correct thing. i was more than a little stunned out here in seattle (hi, john doe) to flip on my computer wednesday afternoon to see this jerk and his nasty pics. i am curious about the guy and this story, but i think nbc was just a tad insensitive to the situation. is the pic of him snarling with that hammer in his hands somehow vital information?
maybe wait, oh, a few days at least, until the community has a chance to take a breath, before you hit them with that stuff. is it just me?

These videos should be stopped immediately for the sake of young people everywhere, and most especially the greiving families and community involved in this horrendous event. Please, Please stop showing it NOW!

I wish NBC/MSNBC would stop airing the photos and stories about receiving the package. This should be a time about healing and remembering the victims. It seems that NBC is tooting its horn that it received the information and other networks are looking for ratings. I have watched NBC much of the morning and have yet to hear a story today about the families or victims, only how it received the package. Lets focus on whats important. Very disappointing.

When the National news networks and American public have had enough of sensationalizing these ill informed deranged cowards, and start to focus on the true innocent lives impacted by these horrific deeds.
We just might experience less of these horrific incidents on American soil. As long as the media puts a name and face and focus on the perpetrator… it continues to plant the seed of an idea in the simpleminded dysfunctional idiot’s who watch.
Focus the news stories on the lives and families impacted and the healing process.
Bravo Zulu to all those news organizations who are taking the high road ….

I am not from VA nor did I know anyone involved in this horrible situation, but I'm sick and grief stricken over it. .
Bravo to the local papers for focusing on what is important, the victims. I want to remember their faces not this monsters.
I only wish that every other newspaper/station would do the same.
I agree with April this "man" doesn't deserve fame.
I want my children to look back on this and remember the lives lost, not the man who took them.

I agree that the healing must be paramount. Afterall, if thoughts do become one's reality, why stay focused in someone else's eternal hell that they have created.

I understand that some things are, in fact, newsworthy and the fact that he sent such a revealing package to the media, should leave no doubt as to his character and so by that token, has he not done a great service and removed the doubt of his motive.

Let us all be peace now and remember those that were so prematurely taken. The true gift is to be thankful in every situation. Yes, there are alot of questions, but who politicizes this first, isn't to be commended or applauded (b).

Stop with the 24/7 pics & video!
Stop making him into a macabre celebrity. With this fame-obsessed nation of anything-goes-for-fame mentality, why give would-be killers a prototype?

Let's remember the victims and forget the murderer quickly.

To all the TV and Newspaper media- BE RESPOSIBLE!! Stop showing pictures glorifying CHO the way he wanted to be seen. There are teens out there who will adopt him as their hero and want to emulate his behavior. Please keep the focus on those who lost their lives and their families.

I think the Blacksburg newspaper has the right approach

We sure are spending a lot of time glorifying this idiot fool who blamed every little problem he had on others. Rather, he should have manned up and taken responsibility form him-self. Oh ya I forgot, in society today we have an excuse for everything and everyone!!! Bottom line is that a-hole took the lives of innocent hard working honest human beings. His face belongs at the bottom of my toilet not on every website or paper. The "dont watch" excuse does not work either. 10 year olds dont know how to "to turn it off" yet. The media has taken this way to far - thats the bottom line!

The news anchors interview innumerable psychiatrists and criminal profilers -- all of whom say showing the killer's photos and diatribes only serve to give the killer what he was hoping for, but also is an impetus to set off other nut cases -- so what does the media do? Plaster these obscene images all over the screen with absolutely no regard for the warnings from their experts and more importantly, no respect whatsoever for the victims and their families. As if the situation wasn't tragic enough. And yet, these same networks only briefly mention when another soldier dies in Iraq and will show absolutely no photos of the caskets bearing the remains of the ever-increasing number of troops being killed in Iraq. I don't get it.

I am sick of the images and as someone whose homepage is MSNBC I ask that you remove the picture of the killer with the 2 guns in his hands. Do you not realize that everyone who lost someone sees that picture and thinks "this is the last image my loved one saw"?
Put pictures of the victims up on the homepage!

Cho sent it to a friendly news orginization, home of commies Olberman and Mathhews. Just like when Al Queda sends their vids to Al Jazeera.

Cho's manifesto is straight of Amercian Liberalism 101 (i.e. John Edwards) - America evil, Tax Cuts for the rich, Two Americas, anti-Chistian, etc. This is stuff heard on Hardball and Keith Nutball every night.