Cho Seung-Hui, Superstar

I wrote on Friday night about how I thought NBC News blew it when they decided to give a multi-media platform to the Virginia Tech killer.

Now that we're entering the aftermath of the aftermath of the tragedy, I have become more resolute in my belief that NBC made a mistake. Now that the news cycle has moved on (thank you Alec Baldwin), all I'm left with is an image of the shooter with his guns drawn.

A few readers felt like I was pro-censorship. I'm not. But what I am for when it comes to the media is some self-censorship. What a concept. Somehow restraint has become un-American. One organization had a chance to take a breath and slow down a news cycle. One organization had a chance to step and do something right. From a business standpoint, the long term benefit to their corporate image would have far outweighed the quick-buck, ratings-now mentality that they employed.

I'm all for a free press. All I'm saying is that they also have the freedom to not be the most salacious and most sensational that they can be. It's not like they changed the world by showing the manifesto. There was nothing in there I needed to know, although the photo of the bullets lined up in a row was kind of pretty.

Who knows? Maybe an important story will surface.

Maybe a presidential candidate will spend a lot on a haircut. By the way, his hair does look fabulous.

But it's easy to sit at the computer and complain without offering solutions. So I have come up with an idea the next time some awful thing happens. It should be treated the same way we treat a celebrity sex tape. Sell it to those interested in seeing it.

Think about it. It solves everything. You want to watch it? You want to know his thoughts? You want to see him getting ready to commit the ultimate crime? Cough up the forty bucks (not that I know how much they generally cost).

The purchase/subscription business model is perfect. Only the people who want to see it get to see it.

The network gets to keep the revenue it lost out on by not showing the manifesto (how much would it be really?), and then gives the rest to a victims' fund.

Can you see the commercial? Act now to get the Virginia Tech shooters' multi-media manifesto and ALSO get Kim Kardashian's thoughts on the tragedy!

Kim: It was so, like totally, unbelievably totally terrible, baby.

And I know it doesn't totally solve the problem of not glorifying a killer, which was my whole point, but what the hell, it's a start.