NBC says it was 'sensitive' in airing video

April 20, 2007 NBC News said Thursday that it will limit the use of the video -- material already seen widely on NBC and other networks as well as other video that hasn't been aired -- to less than 10% of airtime on NBC shows and MSNBC, its cable network. The decision follows the airing on "NBC Nightly News" of a brief portion of the tape, which Cho Seung-hui apparently sent in the two hours between the time that he shot dead two people in a dorm and then carried out a bloody rampage at a classroom building that killed 30 more before he turned the gun on himself. NBC News received the tape via Express Mail on Wednesday and debated over the course of several hours whether to air any of it and what to air.

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