Questions
I've been watching the CNN coverage on and off all day, maybe an hour total, and in that spread out hour I have seen a boy in a hospital howling with hallucinations with his face burned so badly that he can't open his eyes, several other seriously wounded children in and out of hospital, and several corpses among the wreckage of Lebanon.
Just now, they did a piece on Lebanese bloggers and broadcast an extremely graphic image of two children's corpses in the street on fire.
So, the question is, what is it about dead Lebanese babies that makes them suitable for broadcast, while dead Iraqis are not?
The long stated rationale by the networks for not broadcasting graphic images from Iraq (although that restriction has loosened a bit) has always been that they were too graphic and might upset viewers.
So the second question is whether this self censorship by the networks on Iraq was not enacted to prevent viewer "upset" at the graphicness of the images, but instead to prevent the "upset" that might be caused by the realization that those injuries are a direct result of US policy.
Because the truth, you see, is unpatriotic.
Just now, they did a piece on Lebanese bloggers and broadcast an extremely graphic image of two children's corpses in the street on fire.
So, the question is, what is it about dead Lebanese babies that makes them suitable for broadcast, while dead Iraqis are not?
The long stated rationale by the networks for not broadcasting graphic images from Iraq (although that restriction has loosened a bit) has always been that they were too graphic and might upset viewers.
So the second question is whether this self censorship by the networks on Iraq was not enacted to prevent viewer "upset" at the graphicness of the images, but instead to prevent the "upset" that might be caused by the realization that those injuries are a direct result of US policy.
Because the truth, you see, is unpatriotic.
posted by mikevotes at
2:59 PM
2 Comments:
Same with dead and wounded Lebanese adults - "terrorists" and others - and our dead or wounded troops, who can't be shown unless they've been all cleaned up and sent to rehab hospitals for their shiny new limbs.
The networks even seem to be willing to show dead and wounded Israelis, but again, as you pointed out, not Iraqis or Americans.
But that's 'cause folks like us only harp on the "bad news"...
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QuakerDave, at 10:01 PM
I think in Iraq, they're under military censorship, and any bad footage is bad for the support of the military. Kinda like 'Nam.
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Anonymous, at 12:44 AM
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