What were the editors thinking?
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Jeff Stanford
Published: April 21, 2008
Page A1 on Sunday had an article about the Virginia Tech shootings, “Are we able to stop campus killers?” by Rex Bowman and Michael Martz). Certainly good food for thought on the first anniversary of the rampage.
But what were Potomac News and the authors thinking when the gunman’s photo was also displayed?
Did it not occur to you that his photo memorializes and highlights him, not the victims?
If you had to put a photo in, the faces of the victims would have been appropriate, not the killer’s.
There are some future shooters out there, to be sure, who crave attention and notoriety, whose future actions might be determined by how we treat gunmen like Cho. Don’t feed the problem by printing his picture. Focus on the victims. Cho only deserved an ignominious death, but you chose to remind us of him, not the victims. Poor choice!!
JEFF STANFORD
Woodbridge
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