No, not the material sent to NBC News by the evil bastard responsible for the Hokie Horror, nor even the fact that he sent it to some media outlet.

No, the shocking thing is their decision to turn it all over to the police.

Sometime after he killed two people in a Virginia university dormitory but before he slaughtered 30 more in a classroom building Monday morning, Cho Seung-Hui mailed NBC News a large package, including photographs and videos, lamenting that “I didn’t have to do this.”

Cho, 23, a senior English major at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, killed 32 people in two attacks before taking his own life.

NBC News President Steve Capus said the network received the package, which was not addressed to a specific person, in Tuesday afternoon’s mail delivery, but it was not opened until Wednesday morning. The network immediately turned the materials over to FBI agents in New York.

But wait -- I thought that the press turning information over to the media is unethical and a threat to freedom of the press. You know, "making the press an investigative arm of the state" and all that crap we hear every time the news media wants to withhold evidence of a crime -- especially when they are the only folks who know the identity of the criminal, such as those who illegally leak classified national security information to them.

I guess that principle are only principles for these people when they disagree with the actions of the criminal -- and when they are not complicit in the crime.

Oh, and by the way -- this material does show how depraved that the murderer Cho really was.