[tgslTakoma]

Just remember... no cussing, no matter how difficult that may be.

EAGLES UP !!

Call CBS Evening News and let your voice be heard!

212-975-3691

[TxtoLA]

I sent an e-mail. I would like to be added to your list when the sponsors are posted. Thank you (I am a newbie)

[BigSkyFreeper]

Sorry, no can do. I'm not going to contact CBS and go against the wishes of the victim's family, who didn't want the world to see it in the first place. CBS is biased, thats a given, but there is a simple thing called respect, and I wish to respect the wishes of Nick Berg's family by not allowing their son to be used as some TV spectacle. This goes beyond the bounds of decency in and of itself. Seeing this video serves no purpose. Frankly, I saw the video online, and I can say without a doubt, this is the first thing that frightened the living **** outta me.

[nutmeg]

bttt

[arrow107]

I sure hope we don't let this die after one day. Keep this thread alive.

[Republican Red]

Can we start a new thread or edit this one to include some other media outlets?

MSNBC had a reporter on this morning that said Nick Berg paid with his life for prisoner abuse. When I heard that I called MSNBC and found a Jeremy Gaines, VP of Media Relations and spokeman for MSNBC

201-583-5362

CNN can be contacted at 404-827-0234

[fdsa2]

I am not sure on this one.

It will be pretty easy for the Dem's to say - look at those blood thirsty conservatives, how typical.

I watched it and instantly regretted my decision. IMHO this should not be aired.

[TC Rider]

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

Now being answered by a young man. He tried to make excuses, I hung up on him.

[syriacus]

Here's a real quote from Dan Rather about showing the videotape of the American's beheading....

It was only after great deliberation that CBS News chose to broadcast portions of this video. We believe it is important for Americans to see it and understand the full impact and danger of the propaganda war being waged against the United States and its allies, and also its effect on the young people of the Arab world. We did not show the graphic scenes contained on the videotape, both for reasons of taste and out of respect for [his] family. CBS News brought you this report because, even in highly edited form, the video illustrates how far an enemy will go to spread its message of hate for the United States.

--Statement by Dan Rather, May 15, 2002, about the videotape of Daniel Pearl's beheading.

[syriacus]

Jeff Jacoby, of the Boston Globe, thought we should see the Daniel Pearl video

Looking at the horror [excerpt], By Jeff Jacoby, Jewish World Review June 14, 2002

There are times when no good purpose is served by publicizing a terrible image. The repeated broadcast of race car driver Dale Earnhardt's fatal crash last year was gratuitous. Nothing was gained by replaying, over and over, the beating of Rodney King.

But the beheading of Daniel Pearl is different. It conveys with a force no words can match the undiluted malignancy, the sheer evil, of the enemy we are fighting. Yes, it is a horror. Yes, it is barbaric. But we are at war with barbarians, and what they did to Pearl, they would gladly do to any one of us. This is no time to be covering our eyes.

[syriacus]

Dislaimer: This is hearsay, but, for what it's worth...one source says Dan Rather wanted to show an unedited version of the Daniel Pearl beheading.

THE DANIEL PEARL VIDEO - WHY YOU HAVE NEVER SEEN IT!

After having viewed the [Daniel Pearl] video last night - I was not disgusted, rather very angry.

I now understand the anger and frustration that Dan Rather of CBS must have felt when he was forced to edit this tape.

It is anger over censorship.

It is anger over highly effective U.S. government public affairs spin which has put the label of "gruesome" on this tape when the correct label should be: "anti-Semitic of the highest editorial value".

[Piedmont Rebel]

Called in and spoke with Kimesha or Tamesha (not sure.) She said it was their top story yesterday and that it has been covered. She was polite. She also said that they showed as much of the video as was possible within FCC regs. Keep Calling! CBS should have to answer for the discrepancy in their news coverage.

[biblewonk]

They shouldn't show it.

[Khuey]

Email is away!

[Main Street]

[aquila48]

YES!!

[purple haze]

The premise of this action seems to be that airing the infamous photos of the treatment of Iraqi prisoners is equivalent to airing the videotape of the brutal murder of an American; therefore, fairness demands that since the former was aired, so must be the latter.

But it seems to me that this stance undermines the dominant view on this site over the past days that Berg's beheading was a far, far more heinous act--and much more gruesome, which has a bearing on its viability on broadcast airwaves. Hasn't everyone been in agreement that the beheading proved once and for all how much more vile and despicable militant Islam can be than the US Military? If so, then I don't see how you can argue to CBS that the two events merit equal coverage down to the broadcast of every gory detail.

I would personally prefer (as I'm sure would Berg's family) not to look at folks being decapitated on my evening news, American or otherwise. I can't fault CBS for choosing not to show a decapitation on network TV.

[SZonian]

Done!

Although you or anybody else will never be able to convince me to watch those slimes at CBS! ;-)~

Cheers!

[Humidston]

I'm so proud.... Here's a copy of my busy daughter's letter to CBS....

"Show it. SHOW IT you cowards! Let Americans SEE with their very own eyes what vermin we are up against. You will show Iraqis with panties on their heads but you won't show them cutting off one of our American's heads. Oh yeah, we're even now, we put panties on their heads, they cut off ours.

Your choice of stories is insane. Americans can't "wake up" to the reality of what we are up against if YOU choose never to show it. I am so freaking tired of hearing about those "poor opressed" Arabs/Muslims. WAKE UP CBS!!!!!!!!!!! I will NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT NOT turn on your channel AGAIN. You should be ashamed of yourselves, hang your heads - especially Dan baby Blather. Sick. You guys are just SICK. Move would you? Let Americans find their backbone again and regain a shred of dignity. I am furious. Show it you yellow bellied "news reporters." SHOW IT. Show it for Daniel Pearl, Show it for Nick Berg, show it for the victims of 911..... SHOW IT."

[Frapster]

I think showing this video on the public airways where it can be indiscrimanently viewed is not the wise or prudent thing to do. I think it was irresponsible for ALL the newsprograms to show the prison 'abuse' photos and it is even more irresponsible to show this video (which I have seen unedited). Two wrongs do not make a right.

I do agree that the videos should be seen by all mature persons in America - I think s should see it and they should be seething at what they see. But that video does not belong on the public airways - neither do these 'abuse' photos.

[tdadams]

I find it just a little bit disturbing and disingenuous that some of the same people who called for CBS to have their broadcast license revoked because they aired a two second live shot of Janet Jackson's boob are now demanding CBS air the grisly beheading of an innocent young American.

Some of you need to seriously grow up.