[abb]

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.

[HiJinx]

Not a bad first post...sorry it took you 4 years to find something worth posting!!

You're right about them airing that which suits their agenda.

[So Cal Rocket]

do ya'll remember the famous video and pic of the saigon police chief shooting the vc in the head?

This one?

[tgslTakoma]

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.

Exactly. And what is the difference to our media between that and this? That episode turned the public against America's involvement in that war. This video would do the opposite.

Very good first post, btw.

[TheLion]

Good first post...I remember that very well. The media had no qualms about showing all the horrors in Vietnam.

[WOSG]

Great first post!

Capture a still of the video before Mr Berg's death,
and you have a perfect analogy with that prized
picture that was used so often. Not to mention
the naked girl running in fright from a burning Vietnamese village.

Let's not let this man die in vain.
Let's not let the 9/11 victims die in vain.
This is a message. To us. Telling us to stand up
and face and fight evil with courage.

[kcvl]

I don't remember that but it doesn't surprise me IN THE LEAST!

Congratulations on your first post.

[L_Von_Mises]

You are correct. It was recorded on both film and video. Eddie Adams won the Pulitzer for the photo and the Huntley/Brinkley Show an NBC aired the video to 20 million Americans. That photo was considered to be a major turning point in American support for the war. I question the actual impact, but it sure did not help the war effort.

Interesting piece about this photo and its impact here.

One excerpt:

Adams wrote in Time magazine, "The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera. Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths. What the photograph didn't say was, 'What would you do if you were the general at that time and place on that hot day, and you caught the so-called bad guy after he blew away one, two or three American soldiers?'"