Where I fault CNN is their spin against Bush and their failure to address the lack of state and local leadership.
I don't honestly know if it's truly respectful to allow all these people to die, yet show none of them on televison.
What is a funeral viewing other than showing a dead corpse to people, albeit they are generally family and friends. I think we may be shortchanging the people who died.
These people suffered terrible circumstances and died, yet we fail to show what happend to them, where they came to rest. I have mixed emotions about sanitizing this too much.
If you struggled for your life, you fought tenatiously to live on, were injured and suffered the ultimate indignity, would you really rather nobody knew of what you went through and where you finally wound up.
I see that as a part of honoring those people. It's acknowledging them and for a brief moment reaching out to them with our attention and condolences. Without seeing that, how can I say that I identify with their deaths individually, not just as a big stat in someone's ledger.
I understand where you're coming from, I'm just not convinced that's the only concern here.
" Where I fault CNN is their spin against Bush and their failure to address the lack of state and local leadership.
I don't honestly know if it's truly respectful to allow all these people to die, yet show none of them on televison."
Agree with first sentiment and diverge slightly with the second.
If the media wants to show the dead, with the family's permission, at their funeral service- that would be ok.
The fireman after 9/11 covered the remains of the fallen with the flag, as they were brought out of Ground Zero.
That was appropriate and respectful.
But, CNN wants to show the uncovered corpses as they lay-which is morbid and disrespectful to the dead and their family members.
Anyone who has lost a loved one knows that the mortuary generally prefers to make the dead presentable for viewing, especially if time has elapsed since death, before allowing the family to see them.
Because the image of a loved one in disarray, covered in blood, in rigor ,discolored and in many cases now, bloated -will never be erased from their memory and shouldn't be broadcast nationwide.