Your humble Blog Goliard has apparently got his letter-writing mojo working this week. The following note was just sent to NBC News and MSNBC TV.

Dear Sirs,

I am writing to you to protest in the strongest terms your decision to rush to broadcast the pictures and rantings sent to you by the mass-murderer who struck at Virginia Tech on Monday. (I, unlike you, am opposed to furthering his post-mortem glorification…to the point where I refuse to even speak or write his name.)

The images in particular, which more than anything resembled rough drafts of posters for a Tarantino movie, are sure to inspire and embolden other disturbed persons. Well done. The blood of their future victims is now at least partly on your hands.

This issue has a particular impact on me because I work at a large public university, and deal with many students face-to-face each day. What’s more, not a few of them have reason to be frustrated and unhappy with my department on a regular basis. What you have done to glorify this killer, to give him his final victory, and to inspire others to do the same, is something I take very personal offense to.

I am finished watching NBC News, or indeed anything broadcast on the NBC network apart from sports (yes, I admit, I am too weak to give up football), or anything at all that may appear on MSNBC.

This—a promise not to watch from just one unknown person—may be a trivial thing in your eyes, but it is done in earnest. I can assure you of that. I sent a similar letter to CBS News when they broadcast their reports on the fraudulent National Guard memos, and refused to come clean about their mistake and bad faith. Though at the time a Survivor and The Amazing Race addict, I thereafter did not watch a single minute of anything broadcast on CBS (except, again, for football) until Mary Mapes, Dan Rather, and Andrew Heyward had all left CBS News. And, do you know, I still turn to that channel very rarely. Guess I’m out of the habit now.

Congratulations on joining their ranks.

I urge the regular readers of this not-quite-regular blog (all three or four or five of you) to consider writing similar letters of protest. What NBC News has done is low and disgusting and simply unconscionable.