A Possible Motive...

J. -

The media benefits from the "drama" and to add to speculation so that they can get people to come out of the woodwork for their 15 minutes of fame....

I personally - wouldn't give his face or name to anyone - therefore he loses what "fame" he would've garnered from this horrible act..

The media is going to stir up controversy...
they are going to use scare tactics - any thing they can to get more people to watch...more watchers means more money from advertisers....

it's a shame that someone or even a group of people have to use violence to get noticed....

People feed off of it.
I really have no idea what you are talking about but people want to see other people's dramas and tragedies. Just look at our regular television programming.
How many times did they replay the 9/11 tapes and from how many dofferent angles? 3500 people died yet all of America was tuned in to see it.
Think Touched by an Angel could make these days, not a chance.
I pray for the people who were killed in Oslo. I pray for Norway. Some places you think are pretty immune to these kinds of things, I guess not.

i thought the same thing when i saw the movie about the killing of John Lennon.

I dont care what the guys views were, they made no sense and he was a hypocrite, he just wanted to get publicity and negative attention, I wish i had never seen it.

And i dont care what this guys motives were, hes a jerk and nobody should read his drivel.

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I agree with Cheryl O. It is definitely for the drama. On one hand I think that people who have family over there, or someone who mentioned 9/11, even though you can't change it or be there at that moment watching it may give some insight to what happened. I think the hardest thing for a person is not knowing what happened or why it happened when a family member or close friend is killed. I doubt this is the news shows intentions, but I think that it may be that way for some people who are personally affected. But it feeds into the nut cases claim to fame and that is not good. No criminal should be glorified.

Just another example of the media's perceived image of the populations' thirst for details.
Obviously, the man is sick. In any production line, there are going to be some faulty units. Whether it's a manufacturing malfunction, an impact of the environment that breaks down the unit over time....whatever....every farm has a few bad eggs. Such is society.
But kudos to Oslo for closing the hearings to the public to prevent this particular egg from getting any more attention-for now at least.
After all, the media can only report what it can find out,right?