Do you remember hearing the voice of Bernard Shaw on the evening of January 15, 1991, live from Baghdad as the bombs fell?
Oh, how CNN has been brought low. The network that once made a name for itself with brave war coverage has sunk to this depth:
On Monday evening, October 16, 2006, Larry King will devote an entire hour of his program to a live interview with John Mark Karr.
You know – the pedophile and child porn enthusiast who has sexual fantasies of raping, torturing, and murdering small children. The interview that other networks had -- but bagged, in the interests of taste. Because it's vulgar to broadcast interviews with him, and they know it. Or maybe they hesitated because Karr freaked them out.
A solid hour on CNN is perhaps the exact thing Karr fantasized about when he falsely confessed to CNN’s favorite unsolved homicide.
Now the question becomes – how many people are going to watch this pathetic man get fifteen more minutes of grotesque fame? Am I going to watch? Are you? Or is this too sickening even for the most hardened student of criminology?
The media watchdogs will be all over this. I can't wait to read the remarks that will soon appear on The TV Newser, Jossip, and American Journalism Review. Huffington and Drudge will probably weigh in, too. I already have a good idea what the professional true crime writers will think.
You can submit your questions ahead of time for Larry King to ask Karr here. I won’t bother submitting the questions I want answers to, because Larry King won’t ask them. I’d like to know, Mr. Karr --
How many children have you raped, exactly? How much money is CNN paying you for this interview? And how many virgins will that buy in Thailand?
It's vulgar, sickening, and just plain wrong. Shame on CNN for allowing this to happen.
Posted by: bunnybeth | October 15, 2006 at 02:52 PM
Thank you for the bullshit call on this one. I'm continually astonished that he's getting any time at all. There's not a story there anymore. What was Keith Ablow smoking? Larry King -- eh.
And now at least I know Kreepy will be a neighbor. Great.
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