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Article: Second-Guessing on Use of Cho Pictures
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- April 20, 2007
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NEW YORK - Did news judgment really compel NBC and other organizations to use the material Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho intended for his epitaph? Or was this a case where revulsion should have left it in a desk drawer?
They're tough questions for journalists, not made any easier by an apparent attempt by television news organizations to have it both ways when the heat was turned up.
"This is the classic ethical issue where there could be multiple right answers and multiple wrong answers," said Bob Steele, a senior journalism ethics faculty member at the Poynter Institute in Florida.
NBC News was at the tip of all these issues when the package of photos, video files and written ...