Good evening. We now know what the Virginia Tech gunman was doing during that two-hour period between shootings on campus. He was compiling before going to the post office and mailing via overnight mail what can only be described as a multimedia manifesto, containing video, still pictures and a lengthy document to NBC headquarters here in New York. The envelope was sent from Blacksburg, Virginia on Monday morning…We are sensitive to how all of this will be seen by those affected, and we know that we are—in effect—airing the words of a murderer tonight.

–Brian Williams, on NBC Nightly News' decision to run the VT gunman's "multimedia manifesto" on last night's evening news broadcast.

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