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FREEP CBS EVENING NEWS NOW !! (Beheading video)
kristinn | May 11, 2004 | self

Posted on 05/11/2004 2:57:03 PM PDT by tgslTakoma

Kristinn just called me and asked me to post this thread.

He just called CBS Evening News and asked them if they were going to show the militant Islamists' video of the beheading of American Nick Berg.

The woman who answered the phone said that they were going to do a story on it, but they were NOT going to show the full video.

He asked them, "Why not, since you had no problem showing the pictures of the Iraqis being abused by our guys in the prison. Don't you think turnabout is fair play?"

The woman got mad and said, "Thank you for your comment." and then hung up the phone.

Call CBS Evening News and let your voice be heard!

212-975-3691


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To: Mo1
My Philly local talk radio has a caller on stating that ABC and Jennings mentioned how the Berg family had filed a lawsuit against Rummy because their son was missing

Good Lord!

181 posted on 05/11/2004 4:01:13 PM PDT by EllaMinnow (How many times can a flip flop flip before it completely flops and flips out?)
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To: redlipstick
Andrea Mitchel is doing Hardball tonight instead of Chrissy
182 posted on 05/11/2004 4:01:49 PM PDT by Mo1 (Make Michael Moore cry.... DONATE MONTHLY!!!)
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To: tgslTakoma
This is reprehensible reporting, but it will increase Americans' anger at the terrorists and, in turn, support for our war effort.

It puts the prisoner abuse in perspective.
183 posted on 05/11/2004 4:01:51 PM PDT by edwin hubble
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To: tgslTakoma

When will Dan Rather apologize for his part in making this happen?


184 posted on 05/11/2004 4:01:52 PM PDT by WOSG (http://freedomstruth.blogspot.com - I salute our brave fallen.)
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To: piasa
FWIW -- ABC Radio News is on the hour is already spinning this as being the fault of the US for not getting him out earlier.
185 posted on 05/11/2004 4:02:18 PM PDT by L.N. Smithee (Just because I don't think like you doesn't mean I don't think for myself)
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To: tgslTakoma
Emailed, FWIW:

Pictures of Americans comitting atrocities against foreigners? No problem. Pictures of foreigners committing atrocities against Americans? Oh, NOW we have a problem. Show us both or neither, you sick SOB's.

186 posted on 05/11/2004 4:02:37 PM PDT by Frunabulax ("If the truth will kill them, let them die.")
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To: highlandbreeze
Enabled or not, CBS made an informed decision that had nothing to do with the provider of the pictures.

You can choose right or wrong. They chose wrong.

Black and white.

Period.
187 posted on 05/11/2004 4:02:37 PM PDT by HiJinx ("Occupation is too important to be left entirely to the diplomats." wretchard 5-5-04)
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To: walford
You have got to be kidding!!! Barely a mention?!
188 posted on 05/11/2004 4:03:03 PM PDT by highlandbreeze (....that others may live.)
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To: ASA.Ranger
(CBS) 60 Minutes:

ADDRESS:
60 Minutes
524 West 57th St.
New York, NY 10019

PHONE: (212) 975-3247

http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/feedback/fb_news_form.shtml
189 posted on 05/11/2004 4:03:05 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: cripplecreek
Calls to show the video get nowhere.
A better tack is to politely ask that since CBS repeatedly ran pictures of the prison "atrocities" which inflamed the Arab street and which then led directly to the beheading of Mr. Berg, when was the network planning to issue a public apology to Berg's family for causing his death?
190 posted on 05/11/2004 4:03:40 PM PDT by finnigan2 (My more advanced)
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To: HiJinx
Eaxactly, CBS was culpable.

However, I still believe that Hackworth knew what the result could be.
191 posted on 05/11/2004 4:04:37 PM PDT by highlandbreeze (....that others may live.)
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To: Willie Green
Personal attacks? I have criticized what you do, not who you are.

I have not been shown the same courtesy.

192 posted on 05/11/2004 4:05:23 PM PDT by Petronski (Some chose shame, but got war anyway. --Churchill)
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To: Mo1
So Andrea is sitting in for Chrissy Matthews. Is Britt just on vacation? Special Report isn't the same w/o him. INfo please...
193 posted on 05/11/2004 4:06:04 PM PDT by HoneyBoo
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To: Eaker
They'd air it without so much as a second thought if it were American soldiers doing that to a Muslim.

That doesn't justify lowering our standards of decency to their level of graphic barbarism.

194 posted on 05/11/2004 4:06:12 PM PDT by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: kcvl
very first post - lurker since 2000...so be gentle. do ya'll remember the famous video and pic of the saigon police chief shooting the vc in the head? the networks had no qualms about running that vid, but it fit their agenda.
195 posted on 05/11/2004 4:06:26 PM PDT by abb
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To: highlandbreeze
Oh, ok. I wasn't lumping Hackworth into the culpability mix...

I see where you're coming from now, and you're right.
196 posted on 05/11/2004 4:06:51 PM PDT by HiJinx ("Occupation is too important to be left entirely to the diplomats." wretchard 5-5-04)
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To: Frunabulax
That's good.
197 posted on 05/11/2004 4:07:07 PM PDT by tgslTakoma (Still waiting for my paycheck from Mr. Scaife...)
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To: WOSG
When will Dan Rather apologize for his part in making this happen?

Apologize?? Shouldn't we demand his immediate resignation!?!?

198 posted on 05/11/2004 4:07:49 PM PDT by So Cal Rocket (Fabrizio Quattrocchi: "Adesso vi faccio vedere come muore un italiano")
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To: The Louiswu
I called CBS after I checked their website. They have pix of the prisoners on there, including a picture described as:"A badly beaten Iraqi appears dead in this photo from Abu Ghraib. The military is investigating at least 14 prisoner deaths in U.S. custody in Afghanistan and Iraq. According to Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller, there are "some deaths" at Abu Ghraib being probed. "

I talked to a young man, and then a woman, once he put me on hold. He didn't even know what was on the website, and I had to click through it with him. I was livid. I told them if they won't put a picture of the American that was beheaded today after his death, they should take that picture off, along with the others. I told her they should put the complete video of American being killed to inflame people just as they inflamed Iraqis with the prisoners pix...and it was probably a direct result of them releasing those pictures that an American was beheaded today.

She said my comments would be passed along.

199 posted on 05/11/2004 4:07:51 PM PDT by World'sGoneInsane
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To: All
Okay....the ONLY FAX I can find for CBS is to THEIR INTERNSHIP program......YOU decide.....I'm sending some graphic photos of our American hanging from a bridge and 9-11 compared to the terrorist on a leash and asking them WHICH is the ATROCITY? Am I out of line?

FAX...212-975-6699....internship program, as I said
200 posted on 05/11/2004 4:07:55 PM PDT by goodnesswins (I hate the media with a vengeance I've never in my life known.)
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