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1 posted on 05/23/2005 10:21:28 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Nah. What we need is more pictures of dead MSM journalists. :-)


2 posted on 05/23/2005 10:23:21 AM PDT by hiredhand (My kitty disappeared. NOT the rifle!)
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How about showing some pictures of the people leaping from the burning towers on 9/11/2001.

Maybe some pictures of the wreckage of the plane in Pennsylvania.

And how about some pictures of the wreckage at the Pentagon and some of the burn victims being pulled from the rubble.

Let's see some pictures of the firemen and policemen pulling their brothers out of the rubble of the WTC.

Why don't they want to show those pictures anymore?


4 posted on 05/23/2005 10:25:51 AM PDT by VRWCmember
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To show dead GI`s would only serve to embolden Al-Qaeda, something I`m sure papers like the LA Times can`t wait to do. I`d rather see Al Qaeda dead, and make no doubt, our men and women who gave their lives would feel the same, but you know what happens if we showed those photos? Liberals would scream bloody hell. We can`t even show pictures of them wearing underwear on their heads.


7 posted on 05/23/2005 10:28:32 AM PDT by EdHallick
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To: Kaslin

I'd prefer more pictures of dead journalists, myself. Scumbags!


8 posted on 05/23/2005 10:29:47 AM PDT by 68 grunt (3/1 India, 3rd, 68-69, 0311)
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To: ariamne; jan in Colorado; Former Dodger; Fred Nerks; Cornpone; expatguy; appalachian_dweller; ...

More MSM betrayal and dishonesty ping!

A.A.C.

Isn't it time to add the left-wing media to the "Axis of Evil" list on an official basis?!


9 posted on 05/23/2005 10:31:47 AM PDT by AmericanArchConservative (Armour on, Lances high, Swords out, Bows drawn, Shields front ... Eagles UP!)
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For a long time I have thought these people were sick in the head, now I know it.


10 posted on 05/23/2005 10:32:42 AM PDT by ANGGAPO
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Let's compromise, one picture of a dead journalist for every picture of a dead soldier.


11 posted on 05/23/2005 10:34:02 AM PDT by Doctor Raoul (Support Our Troops, Spit On A Liberal Reporter)
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Funny how they don't want more pictures of 9/11 though. And won't run the ones they have.


14 posted on 05/23/2005 10:36:42 AM PDT by Peach
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Yet the MSM media negated many pictures of the successful elections conducted in Afghanistan last year and in Iraq this past January.

Yet the MSM media doesn't set forth the citizens of these two countries welcoming the American armed serves into their cities/regions.

Yet the MSM refuses to show the goodwill being generated by the new found freedoms of these citizens.

Yet the MSM doesn't illustrate the horrors inflected upon the citizens of these two countries by the 'foreign' outsiders, the Muslims of Saudi, Syria, Jordan, Iran origin.

15 posted on 05/23/2005 10:37:01 AM PDT by Stand Watch Listen
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Picture of Saddam in his tighty-whitey's got lots of attention.


19 posted on 05/23/2005 10:42:35 AM PDT by CheneyChick
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We got the bubble-headed-bleach-blonde who
Comes on at five
She can tell you ’bout the plane crash with a gleam
In her eye
It’s interesting when people die-
Give us dirty laundry

Can we film the operation?
Is the head dead yet?
You know, the boys in the newsroom got a
Running bet
Get the widow on the set!
We need dirty laundry

You don’t really need to find out what’s going on
You don’t really want to know just how far it’s gone
Just leave well enough alone
Eat your dirty laundry

Kick ’em when they’re up
Kick ’em when they’re down
Kick ’em when they’re up
Kick ’em when they’re down


23 posted on 05/23/2005 10:51:17 AM PDT by TheForceOfOne (My tagline is currently being blocked by Congressional filibuster for being to harsh.)
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There can be horrible images, but war is horrible and we need to understand that," veteran war photographer Chris Hondros told the Times.

Thanks, Chris. I mean, if it weren't for the journalists we'd all be thinking that war is just one big campfire weenie-roast, right?

Underlying all these people's comments is a condescension so ingrained that they don't even notice it anymore. And it is definitely more than the usual cliches about "bearing witness."

"I think if we are going to start a war, we ought to be willing to show the consequences of that war."

Which, translated, says "America was wrong and we're going to keep showing distressing images until it reforms." Thanks but no thanks.

25 posted on 05/23/2005 10:52:55 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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If the media would like to publish pictures of the horror of innocent death, I think they should put together a 20/20 or Dateline show that shows the horror of abortion.


26 posted on 05/23/2005 10:54:23 AM PDT by BobCNY
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Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans PING

In a comprehensive report on Saturday, the Los Angeles Times noted:

"A review of six prominent U.S. newspapers and the nation's two most popular newsmagazines during a recent six-month period found almost no pictures from the war zone of Americans killed in action."

The paper explained:

"Many photographers and editors believe they are delivering Americans an incomplete portrait of the violence that has killed 1,797 U.S. service members and their Western allies and wounded 12,516 Americans."
29 posted on 05/23/2005 10:56:06 AM PDT by weegee ("Do you want them to write a piece about how great the military is?" Elizabeth Bumiller - NY Times)
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That is very, very sick.

I keep thinking that the left and the MSM can't go any lower and they continually prove me wrong.


31 posted on 05/23/2005 11:04:29 AM PDT by Stashiu (RVN, 1969-70)
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Why didn't the MSM make this request during the Kosovo War?


32 posted on 05/23/2005 11:05:31 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Harmful Or Fatal If Swallowed)
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American photojournalists and their editors are... saying that the nation isn't getting an accurate picture of the horrors of war.

American soldiers are saying that the MSM is not giving an acurate picture of the successes and progress being made in Iraq.

Who ya gonna believe?
Besides, we know the horrors of war. We don't need the likes of Newsweek to show us.

36 posted on 05/23/2005 11:16:15 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (If you only knew the powerrrrr of the Tagline.)
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Pim Van Hemmen, assistant managing editor for photography at the Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., agreed, telling the Times: "Writing in a headline that 1,500 Americans have died doesn't give you nearly the impact of showing one serviceman who is dead."

This is only true if you're a photography editor propagandist who wants to affect the war. The rest of us know what 1,500 dead soldiers means, and you can bet the Iraqis know what it means: It means they get to do the purple finger thing instead of the finger-beaten-off-with-an-iron-rod-thing.

37 posted on 05/23/2005 11:19:54 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback ("Slippery slope? Try cliffdiving."--Freeper Crazieman comments on the post-Terri world.)
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What scum.


45 posted on 05/23/2005 11:40:49 AM PDT by ozzymandus
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48 posted on 05/23/2005 11:48:13 AM PDT by TADSLOS (Right Wing Infidel since 1954)
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