"We ought to be ashamed of ourselves. Publicity is this monster's gasoline. It's what kept him going during the years he was playing cat and mouse with the cops and murdering innocent people. He loved being the BTK killer. He loved reading about himself in the newspapers, watching the television stories on the local news in Kansas, on the nights before he got caught.Way to go, Jack! I hope the corner office at CNN and the other news networks which allowed Dennis Rader all of that free airtime will consider your words next time around. In case they missed them, here's a transcript.
Doesn't anybody get this? This thing should have been sentenced in a closed courtroom in 30 seconds and thrown into a hole to rot. I'm a little embarrassed to be a part of the media on a day like this.
This is a ghoulish exercise on the part of the news media and if ratings are the reason, then I'll say it again, we ought to be ashamed of ourselves. There was no reason to give this guy a platform to talk to everybody in the country about thanking the cops and all this garbage that he spewed.
I watched it for two hours. It's nonsense. It doesn't belong on television. Nobody needs to watch this stuff. All it does is inspire other nut cases out there that may be they can get themselves famous by doing this kind of -- it's terrible and I don't care how many people were watching."
"I didn't think the subject matter of Thursday's show was the kind of broadcast that I should be doing. I suggested some alternatives but the producers preferred the topics they had chosen. I was fine with that, and respectfully declined to participate. There were no hard feelings at all. It's not a big deal. I'm sure there are countless topics that will be mutually acceptable in the future."This is why Bob should go back to doing his HBO "On The Record" show weekly (rather than his current monthly show, "Costas Now"). "OTR" allowed him to do what he liked, not the sort of junk news coverage he'll be forced into whenever he subs for King. Costas is a brilliant interviewer and broadcaster, but he'll be sucked down by the quicksand that is "Larry King Live" if he stays there.
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