The Blame Game

Christ the media pisses me off sometimes. Numb-nutted sensationalists. Cho goes on the rampage, kills 32 people but lacks the common decency to stay alive and therefore give the media the juicy and salacious prospect of a long trial. And with no blame figure left alive, and with a need to milk this story for everything it is worth, the media starts flailing around looking for someone, or something, else to blame. Let’s have a look at some of the gems they have come up with over the past few days:

It is the fault of a movie. Yep, that old chestnut. A movie made Cho kill 32 people and himself. Damn, that must be one influential movie. Almost as influential as other movies that have made people kill. Like Child’s Play 3 inspiring the murder of Jamie Bulger. And Star Wars Episode Six: Return of the Jedi inspiring Jeffrey Dahmer. Oh, maybe not when you sit down and think. Real life may influence movies, and movies may influence real life. Eastenders could push someone over the edge; Christ alone knows that the very fact it is broadcast makes me angry. But there is no causal link between the movies and real life violence. Cho may have felt a link or an affinity with characters or events in Oldboy. But the movie did not make him kill. 3,132,000 watched Oldboy in South Korea. To my knowledge, those 3,132,000 have not gone out and committed mass murder. Judging by the lack of 10,022,400 killings, anyway.

The college authorities and the police are to blame for not locking down the campus. Hindsight is a really wonderful thing, isn’t it? I bet the authorities really wish they had locked down the campus. Now. But the fucking media can’t concede that it is only in retrospect, when the authorities realise that locking down the campus may have stopped Cho’s lethal progress, that is makes sense to have implemented draconian security procedures. At the time of the first two murders, it looked like the college and the police were dealing with a domestic dispute. And whilst double murders are comparatively rare, they are far more common than spree killings. And double murders seldom, if ever, result in mass killings.

The media needs to be blamed for showing Cho’s footage. Bollocks, frankly. Is it distasteful so show the ranting of a diseased mind so soon after his killing spree? Well, quite probably. But since when have we really expected taste and decency from our media? And why the fuck do you think they broadcast tasteless shit? Because there is a market for tasteless shit. And aside from everything else, there is still the awesome power of voting with your remote control. If you don’t want to see Cho ranting, then don’t watch him. And I struggle to find a news outlet that is reporting on the reaction against the broadcast of Cho’s video that doesn’t have the video available on their website. It is beyond hypocrisy, really.

I could go on and on, but I am sick of this subject and appalled by the media’s fucktarded presentation of these terrible murders. Why do they feel the need to lash out and blame everyone and everything else for these killings? The person responsible, and the person we should all be blaming, is Cho. And that cunt is dead. He’s lying in the morgue.

Which, frankly, is the best fucking place for him.