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NeeCee
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, July 25, 2003 - 03:49 pm: | 
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Well, I'll admit it. I didn't want to see the photos of Saddam Husein's sons and chose not to look.
I hate graphic images and the media claims it has to air them, because it's the number one new story in the world, but they don't. They have a choice.
How do you feel about TV/Newspapers airing graphic images? Do you want to see them? Do you feel the general public has a right to know? |
ABM
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, July 25, 2003 - 04:00 pm: |
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I'm not especially bother by photos of mangled human corpses, though I don't think that we necessarily have a "right" to see them either.
Or simply: I think that we only have the "right" to know that the Hussein jokers are 'toasted'. But we don't need to see and smell the burning bread.
BTW: If the press continue to show more and more unedited pictures of the decaying dead, will or should newpapers and magazines be made to start including parental advisory notices? |
Chris Hayden
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, July 25, 2003 - 04:02 pm: |
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NeeCee:
My feelings are mixed. I know that people will be shocked, and outraged and offended by such images and I don't like to look at them especially when I've eaten, but maybe if people got a look at what these people are doing in their name they will think about it. It's so easy to think of "the enemy" or collateral and dismiss it and then you see the horribly disfigured corpse of a young man or the torn and burnt body of a young girl.
By the way the Arab world is largely shocked and skeptical about the pictures, particularly after the adminssion that they were "partially rebuilt" to make them look more like the Hussein sons.
As a sidenote, I have had people look at those smashed and bloody faces and say, "Oh yeah. It looks just like them."
Americans are living in some sort of weird dream land. |
Cynique
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, July 25, 2003 - 06:18 pm: |
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I'm not a squeamish person, and I eat up all that gruesome stuff. That's why mostly all I watch on TV are Court TV's "Forensic Files", and A&E's "Cold Case Files," and Discovery's "New Detectives." And I can hardly wait for HBO's next installment of "Autopsy."
It's interesting to note that, in keeping with the Bush administration selective policy of projecting America as the good guys, authorities were very careful not to release photos of Sadaam's 14 year-old grandson who was also among those slaughtered. |
Yukio
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, July 28, 2003 - 07:45 pm: |
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It is only news, propaganda to illustrate that the War was effective and that these people were actually dead, which was necessarily to prove to the locals that "progress" had been made. |
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