Media dropping "terror bombs"

First appearing here at freerepublic.com | 9/23/04 | Joe Moody

[guinness4strength]

Flash-column by Joe Moody

Terrorists are unable to confront the U.S. militarily, so their only weapon is terror. Whenever the terrorists be-head someone and videotape it, this is equivalent to them creating a "terror bomb." Whenever a media outlet replays a terrorist videotape, they are unknowingly dropping this bomb on their viewership.

This is not about censorship but about how to effectively fight this new kind of war. Such atrocities must be reported, but showing the video fulfills the terrorists wishes and spreads their terror to the masses. Ultimately they hope to terrorize Americans so much that they are swayed politically.

If media did not provide a vehicle for such "terror bombs," there would be much less incentive for the terrorists to continue committing such horrors.

Media outlets: stop dropping terror bombs!

[Kackikat]

You have hit nail on head. It's the same thing a criminal does to get his "15" minutes of notoriety....INFAMOUS, not famous.
Mogul Al Zarqwari is counting on this hitting US NEWS...it should not, NO coverage should be given to terrorists. Only to the good we are doing in Iraq. The media is actually aiding and abeting the enemy.

[omega4412]

On the contrary, show the beheadings. Show the dead Russian schoolchildren. Show the people in flames jumping from the World Trade Center.

Show what we are fighting against, and why we are fighting. Never forget. Never forgive.

[AdamSelene235]

spreads their terror to the masses.

Nonsense

Terror? Nope.

RAGE . HOMICIDAL RAGE.

[Tarpon]

So what is Kerry doing? He is feeding the terrorists by essentially telling them through his speeches what he wants for material tomorrow. Same thing Kerry did when he colluded with the VC in 1971.

Interesting isn't it. I guess it really is Vietnam all over again, in Kerry's mind at least.

[trebb]

I'm with you - when people are too disassociated with the evil, they get complacent. Show it all and remind them of what we are fighting. Tell them that with a Kerry presidency, these scumballs might soon be visiting a school in their own neighborhood...

[Izzy Dunne]

Whenever a media outlet replays a terrorist videotape, they are unknowingly dropping this bomb on their viewership.

I could not disagree more.

Remember the Abu Ghraib tapes? How many times they were played?
Compare that to how many times they played the Berg beheading tape.
What was the effect? Anger at the perpetrators, right?

There needs to be anger at the perpetrators (or in Kerry's case, the "perpetraitors").
I don't want it to happen, but if it happens, show it.

And show it.

And show it.

[Izzy Dunne]

Whenever a media outlet replays a terrorist videotape, they are unknowingly dropping this bomb on their viewership.

You can't say this without also saying that the media dropped the bomb about the panty-heads. Tried to terrorize the citizens about the U.S. soldiers. But why do they get to be one-sided bomb-droppers?

[Citizen Tom Paine]

My response to the media showing the terrorist images is to hope that we redouble our efforts to catch these animals. They have demonstrated by their actions that they no longer belong to the human race. Hunt them down and punish them appropriately. Quickly.

[guinness4strength]

Actually popular support for the U.S. mission in Iraq did not increase, but dropped sharply, when the beheadings started.

It seems to go both ways....

[libstripper]

The DemonRats are doing it even more. Look at their new ad, "Juvenile," which they prepared to answer the Bush ad with Kerry wind surfing in all difrferent directions. It says Iraq is a "quagmire" and cites the bombings and be-headings as proof. By so doing it gives aid and comfort to the subhuman Islamofascists, who want us to decide just that and bug out. They'll see it, be encouraged, and redouble their subhuman, murderous activities. Whoever prepared and authorized that ad has the blood of Americans and Iraqis on his or her hands as much as if he or she sawed an American captive's head off.

[Kackikat]

Absolutely, no media coverage should be given to barbarious acts. Take away the infamous "15 min of fame", ignore and it will not have an impact.