Michael Welner, an ABC News consultant and a forensic psychiatrist, appeared on Thursday's Good Morning America to slam the media for gratuitously airing videos sent by deceased mass killer Seung-Hui Cho. Welner even referenced the network frenzy over fired radio host Don Imus by saying, "Just listen, if you can take Imus off the air, you can certainly keep [Cho] from having his own morning show."
On GMA, Welner delivered an impassioned plea for the networks to stop airing the killer's footage:
"If anybody cares about the victims in Blacksburg and if anybody cares about their children, stop showing this video now. Take it off the Internet. Let it be relegated to YouTube. This is a social catastrophe. Showing the video is a social catastrophe. I promise you the disaffected will watch him the way they watched 'Natural Born Killers.' I know. I examine these people. I've examined mass shooters who have told me they've watched 'Natural Born Killers' 20 times. You cannot saturate the American public with this kind of message."
Adapted from a posting, by Scott Whitlock, on the MRC's NewsBusters blog: newsbusters.org
Who is saturating our nation with spiritual evil? Do you want the paranoid psychos in your town to feed on this kind of incitement? Dr. Welner says he does not! As a therapist I can certainly support his plea for sanity for the media but they are crazy about fame and money and will not stop.
He compared Cho's posthumous attention to that of the acclaim given to Palestinian suicide bombers who have "articles written about themselves in the New York Times"
Who honors Islamic terrorists and raises domestic killers to the place of folk heroes by permitting them to be seen hundreds of times on international TV and in famous newspapers?
Why do we pay for this kind of madness?
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