This article, posted Novemer 7th 2007 from Times Online. It talks about how web users searching for information on the high school massacre in southern Finland can find a variety of documents and pictures that seemed to be written by the killer hours before the attacks took place. I find this article quite disturbing, and am shocked at just how much we really can access today. I am particularly shocked at the paragraph : Their intention was to secure their place in history. In the films they claimed they wanted to inspire others to follow their lead believing they would "kickstart a revolution". They thought their home videos would inspire filmmakers to chart their story. In one of the videos, Klebold said: "Directors will be fighting over this story."
I find it hard to understand this way of thinking. However, I think this is a perfect example of just how much society relys on the media today. The criminals wanted to go down in history, and so they placed the videos on Youtube. This would never of happened a few years ago, when Youtube wasn't anywhere near as well known as it is today.
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