Yesterday was indeed a day of mourning and eye-opening realities that we're surrounded by insane individuals. Unfortunately, some of them are authors. The deliberate murders of two young, bright, vivacious reporters on live television yesterday was reprehensible. The idea of even watching a murder on live social media is more than we can wrap our brains around.....way more than surreal. Thankfully, Face Book took down the shooting immediately! Later in the afternoon, I decided to tune into CNN and get the latest facts as known. (I have found CNN to be the most compassionate and factual in these horrendous, murderous events) A fellow was stepping in for Anderson Cooper (sorry my days of remembering names are few) and was interviewing David Cullen, the author of the defining book about the Columbine killings. Mr. Cullen began to slowly blame the media for sensationalizing these (and all) mass murders. He named Matt Lauer and others for reporting the information (backgrounds, families, etc) of these murderers. A modicum of truth hides in his comments...but then he begins to embellish how these killers can really make it big.... You need to kill en masse, you need to pick greater venues like churches and theaters and you need to think big.... WTF... The commentator reminded Mr. Cullen that they were live on the air (hoping, I believe, to squelch his Murder 101 class!) Becoming so blase' about mass murders makes me just a bit nervous.
Please judge for yourselves and let me know if I'm way off base on this interview and Mr. Cullen's "on air" comments.
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=David%20Cullen%208%2F26%2F15%20CNN&qs=n&form=QBVR&pq=david%20cullen%208%2F26%2F15%20cnn&sc=0-0&sp=-1&sk=#view=detail&mid=0D0D5B9B7E3449DEBCFC0D0D5B9B7E3449DEBCFC
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