John Mark Reynolds takes NBC to task in No Excuse: Why did NBC air so much evil now? NBC had the right to air the sick video, but that does not make it right to do so. Reynolds points out:

The reality is that NBC had (so far as I know) the only copies of this wicked stuff. If they had given their only copy to the police, then there would now be no copies on the Internet. The authorities could have decided if there was matter in the videos that went beyond disturbed ranting and could (possibly) tell anyone something they did not know.

It’s hard to see how the public interest is served by publishing these rants. Hugh Hewitt calls it The Single Worst Editorial Decision In The History Of Broadcast News. As one comment on the article says, “I may have missed it, but I don’t think NBC has given that much time to Professor Liviu Librescu.” Apparently evil is more interesting than good. That’s just another reminder that we live in a fallen world.