Well, they withheld the Columbine Basement tapes, Eric + Dylan's version of getting their message to the world, and still are to this day despite many calls even from victim's families for their release.... so I don't think you can say that whether or not these tapes come out determines whether or not someone like Cho will go on a rampage. If anything, it just told Cho that he should send his materials to the press instead of leaving them in his room. These killers with get the notoriety they want regardless... not releasing a few materials isn't going to curb copycat incidents. Now if you can get everybody in the whole world to turn their heads, and no media organizations to report on killings, then you will have an effective way of eliminating the glory factor that drives these killers. That obviously is something not feasible.
Understanding can only be achieved when the truth comes out, and that means everyone's side of the story, including Cho's. I'm not a victim, and neither are you, so it is pretty pretentious to assume that the people most effected by this don't want to hear what drove Cho to do this.
And yes, it is the job of news agencies to report the news. I don't think it was in bad taste for them to only show portions of what they recieved, but once gut reactions and high emotions from the massacre have cooled off a bit, it is my hope that the whole thing will be released. It is important for public closure and understanding.
There is still much confusion as to Eric and Dylan's motives in Columbine, with myths such as bullying being the biggest factor still being a widely held belief. Deep research into what has been released about Eric and Dylan shows that a large motive was a disgust for the erosion of human's survival instincts, ironically, something that has been balked about here concerning the victims of VT. There was also anger derived from feeling excluded, not bullied, but left out of "so many fun things," as Eric put it. Things like music, television, whatever, become scapegoats when what we really need to do is listen to what they have to say for themselves. Only from this can we interpret what really caused them to lash out. All the evidence needs to be presented, otherwise we can't draw any substantial conclusions as to what went wrong, and what really can be done to prevent similar occurances.
Now I don't necessarily agree with the manner they are releasing this, it would make sense to wait a while before presenting this information, because when people's emotions are running high they do not think rationally.
