Just heard him tell the wheezing wolf blitzer that he would NOT play the bin laden tape on any of his shows - he'd report on it but not play it. blitzer said there's this tape that was to be played upon his death and he did speak about a deluge of tweets and emails and other appeals from listeners begging them not to play the tape. I agree! If you want to see it there are places to find it. Let's not reward bad behavior - AGAIN.
10. There was a panel discussion about this on - I think - CNN, where the question was
when do you feed a story and when do you starve a story? The subject pertained to the whole birther thing and how its mushrooming into a monster was in a large part because of voracious media attention. This is a story I'd starve. Nerves are too raw - both ours AND theirs. What good is it? What real good would it do? What might it incite? When do we throw water on a fire and when do we throw gasoline? What serves the public's right to know? I mean - let's be up front about this - we KNOW what kind of shit he's gonna say. We know. That's sufficient. It can be reported ON. Reporters can file three-minute-or-however-long packages about the release of the final bin Laden tape. There can be audio and video clips and voice-over translation. Excerpts within the reports. Anchorpeople talking about it at length. Talk show talk about it at length. But I wouldn't run the whole thing.
Besides I just frickin' HATE reinforcing or rewarding bad behavior!
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