The YouTube killer: eight die in schoolroom shooting massacre

The chilling home-made video shows a young man staring out of a blood-red screen, pointing a gun and declaring: “I, as a natural selector, will eliminate all who I see unfit.”

Hours after posting his “massacre manifesto” on the YouTube website, a gunman presumed to be Pekka-Eric Auvinen, 18, walked into Jokela High School in southern Finland and shot dead five boys, two girls and the headmistress with a .22 calibre handgun. About a dozen more were wounded.
The shooting marked the arrival in peaceful small-town Finland of US-style high-school massacres, a phenomenon spurred by the internet and the isolation of a troubled teenager.

As he posed online with his murder weapon, the killer struck an eerie echo of Cho Seung Hui, who made recordings of himself that he posted to the NBC American television network before killing 32 students at Virginia Tech university, in Blacksburg, last April.
As Finnish police surrounded the school buildings in the town of Tuusula yesterday, students leapt to safety from windows and the killer turned the gun on himself. He was taken to hospital with critical head wounds where he died last night.

The YouTube video continued with images of a young man practising with a firearm in forests similar to those that surround the 5,300-strong community of Tuusula, 30 miles north of the capital Helsinki. The screen then coloured red and the gunman was shown pointing his weapon at the camera, recalling the images recorded by Cho before the Virginia Tech killings.
The first shots rang out at Jokela High at around midday. Mr Kiuru said that the headmistress made an appeal over the public address system for all students to stay in their classrooms.

Report from Timesonline.co.uk

Genre analysis of The Unforgiven And Brokeback Mountain

The two Western theatrical trailers The Unforgiven and Brokeback Mountain are filmed in different eras, the trailers have distinctive contrasts between each other; shep has altered and affected the way the latest Western characters and narrative are mediated to reflect on social issues and acceptance. Additionally films such as Brokeback Mountain are not only Westerns but Hybrids as it depicts romance more than violence and binary oppositions between hero and villain.

The Unforgiven has actors such as a Clint Eastwood, who is renowned for his hard-man, anti-hero character roles; Eastwood conforms to his generic character type as the anti hero as in The Unforgiven trailer he as an actor alone acts as a symbol of a typical western with violent gun fights with his outlawed heroes with a cause. Additionally, the iconography depicted in the trailer such as clothing e.g. long coat and props e.g. guns associate with the whole idea of the Western genre. Additionally close ups and low key lighting is used on Clint Eastwood to create an atmospheric scene and his dishevelled beard connotes his rebellious streak in society and symbolises his anti hero character role. Furthermore the narrative structure is enforced by proppian theory as there is a clear binary opposition depicted by the heroic outlaws and the villainous law. Therefore audience has a clear understanding of the narrative structure and indentify with the hero. Moreover, the trailer uses fast edits and cuts, this connotes its raw depiction of the era it portrays and connotes Clint Eastwood’s rough and rugged character.

Nevertheless the Brokeback Mountain trailer focuses on social issues such as gay relationships in the late 20th century and also gay cowboys in the Wild West. The audience have grown to the idea of a cowboy as a man who’s a gun fighter has a cause to fight, rebellious and generally very masculine. However the Brokeback Mountain’s characters played Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal counter the generalised stereotype of a cowboy and the narrative of a Western genre. Furthermore the genre of the Brokeback Mountain is a hybrid as it also focuses on romance more then a generic western. This is depicted in the lustful scenes between to men and outlines the social issues of homophobia by the public in the past and present. Additionally the mise en scene in the trailer of evergreen hills and secluded mountain range depicts the film to be focused more on romance, love and companionship rather than gun fights and rebellious outlaws who fight for freedom and justice. Additionally the long shots and pan shots of the mountain range and the two men portray a scenic atmosphere and a getaway from society, a place where they accept each other for who they really are indifferent to a gang of outlaws hiding from the law in deserted areas.

The Unforgiven and Brokeback Mountain are presented to the audience in different ways as The Unforgiven focuses on the early 1900’s however Brokeback Mountain depicts the social issues of homophobia and gay relationships rather than fighting back against the law with props such as guns and horses. The key codes and conventions change over time and decades.

3rd. Michael Grade

Job: executive chairman, ITVAge: 64Industry: broadcastingTurnover: £2.18bnStaff: 5,957Salary: £825,0002006 ranking: 7
He began his career as a sports journalist with the Daily Mirror in 1960. There after Grade joined the BBC in 1984, he was Director of Programmes. However Grade left the BBC to join Channel 4 in 1987, acting as Chief Executive, then shifted back to the BBC. On 28 November 2006, Grade and the BBC confirmed that he was to resign from his post with the BBC to replace Sir Peter Burt as Chairman and Charles Allen as Chief Executive of commercial rival ITV, becoming Executive Chairman of ITV plc effective from early 2007.

What he did and planning to do:
· Grade was also responsible for the repeating of Australian soap opera Neighbours, at first purely an afternoon programme, in a later timeslot. This proved to be a successful scheduling decision that still remains in place as of 2007, and paid off at the time with audiences in excess of 15 million viewers for the new 5.35pm showings.

· He also came close to completely axing the sitcom Blackadder, judging the first series to be unfunny; because of high cost (it featured extensive location sequences). He demanded that the price for renewing the series was that it be a completely studio-based production with an audience. It went on to become one of the most successful British sitcoms of all time.

· Grade said the network needed to be "more innovative" and "take more risks", and said a turnaround in its fortunes was about "doing a hundred things maybe just 1% better ... There is still a great deal more to do."

· Grade will has signed on former Sky Networks managing director Dawn Airey, whose job as ITV director of global content will be to take the broadcaster's programming onto new platforms.

Grade rises three places from his position in last year's Media Guardian 100, when he was still at the BBC, It is a reflection of the shifting balance of power," said one panelist. Grade in my opinion take not take the place for third due to the fact that Mark Thompson has more staff under his control and a higher salary also Thompson drops down to three but beats Grade as the BBC remains the single most important cultural influence in the UK, a broadcasting leviathan which spans TV, radio and online.