From WNYKYC in New York, this is On the Media. I'm Bob Garfield.

And I'm Brooke Gladstone. We'll start this show with a brief comment.

There was another shooting Wednesday, more innocent people killed.

It's not our intention to focus on dead journalists.

In America, gun violence erupts every day.

But the murder of TV journalists Alison Parker and Adam Ward present a newish wrinkle

because it happened live on WDBJ TV, Roanoke, Virginia, and videos of the event were posted on Facebook

by the shooter himself.

The killer's perspective, as it were, eerily like the players of you in a first-person shooter game.

It's raised some questions. Are video games culpable?

Come on. Games don't make murderers.

Is the allure of social media somehow to blame? No, no, no.

When information tools are available to everyone, anyone can use them. That's how we know about

Walter Scott's murder by an officer in South Carolina and Eric Garner's death after a police chokehold in New York.

Our cell phone footage shows us who we are and reminds us what we could be.

Often, the reflection is monstrous.

But can anyone argue that blindness is worse?

Yep, lunatics have cameras, but more important, the rest of us do too.

What else is there to say? Music People are sick and tired of reporters standing up and yelling questions in this case where he was clearly yelling questions out of turn.

That's MSNBC's Joe Scarborough.

The guy flew all the way out there to ask a question.

I think I'd seen him on CNN last night.

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