Who's Worse?

From the Omaha World-Herald:

"I'm going to be famous now," the 19-year-old wrote in a suicide note before killing eight, wounding five and killing himself Wednesday afternoon at the Von Maur department store at Westroads Mall.

The shooting was the worst single day of violence in state history.

The very first sentence of the story says
that the shooter made his wish come true Wednesday.

Really?

The shooter made his wish come true?

Does public notoriety happen if no one hears about what you did?

I submit that it was the major media outlets who made the shooters wish come true.

GUILTY

Major Media Outlets, like these, who are giving the news 24 hours a day to millions of people commit the worse crime by glamorizing what the shooter did.

They glamorized it?

To the unbalanced mind, to the messed up individual out there at home collecting ammo while he masturbates thinking about killing people, to that person who needs psychological help in order to not commit a crime like the one yesterday, yeah, the Major Media Outlets made this dillhole schmuckwad in Omaha a Shining Star, a Dylan Klebold, an Eric Harris, a Virginia Tech whatever that person's name was. Now there's a new name for the Hall of Fame. A new hero.

Because of the story being all over the news, in the future there will be new mass shootings resulting in cowardly suicide that will be carried out with him in mind.

And who'll be responsible? A huge part of the blame will fall right back onto the Major Media Outlets. They always scramble like mad to provide the very best coverage of every incident where somebody goes and blows a whole bunch of others away.

But what if no one ever heard about these shooters?

Perhaps inside of some potential murderer out there, the idea would never be planted and it would never grow to the point of action simply because... because he never saw it on the TV news or read about on the internet. Wow.

News and stories can have an impact on people. Sometimes a person sees a story and is moved to organize a non-profit to help bring a little Christmas from home to troops helping to bring freedom to countries on other continents. Or someone sees a story and starts a fundraiser to help a child who has cancer.

Or someone sees a story about mass murder and thinks -- "Yeah! I wanna do that!! This is how I can become famous, too!"

So who's worse? The mentally ill person who commits such a crime?

...or the Major Media Outlets for helping spread the news far and wide about the horrible crimes these people commit?