Effete, sniffing, pooh-pooh-ing, pontificating, anti-American, the Globe and Mail's John Doyle has again chiseled the tablets but this time he has - gasp - found our own Mother Corp wanting. Who'd a thunk it???
Doyle, who too often spends time in his column (and on television) acting like a 1960's draft dodger university professor, objects to the CBC's entirely justifiable even laudable decision not to air the obscene and insane video droolings of the Virginia tech mass murderer.
I don't object to them being studied in a univeristy psych class, perhaps even on a specialty program on TVO, the Discovery channel, PBS or similar, maybe even on the Insanity Channel (hey it's coming, they've got everything else) but after the orgy of coverage, enough was enough. Kudos to the CBC. Would Doyle have said the same thing if it was video from Gamil Gharbi, the coward who was responsible for the Ecole Polytechnique massacre in Montreal those years ago? Why does the CBC (or anyone) have to air this shi* at all let alone give a podium to the criminally insane?
I'm not in favour of censorship, of erasing the thing but as I wrote about the Pickton trial and similar (the salacious details of the Bernardo-Homolka and Olson trials and subsequent revelations), when is enough enough??? When will our respective societies protect the victims and their families?
I don't expect any intelligent suggestions any time soon from Doyle or those of his ilk.
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