War is hell indeed albeit very necessary at times
Posted on 07/21/2008 10:42:26 AM PDT by DemonDeac
"(CNN) -- Italian newspapers, an archbishop and civil liberties campaigners expressed shock and revulsion on Monday after photographs were published of sunbathers apparently enjoying a day at the beach just meters from where the bodies of two drowned Romany gypsy girls were laid out on the sand."
"Two of them were pulled to safety but rescuers failed to reach the other two in time to save them.
The Web site of the Archbishop of Naples said the girls were cousins named Violetta and Cristina, aged 12 and 13.
Their bodies were eventually laid out on the sand under beach towels to await collection by police. Photographs show sunbathers in bikinis and swimming trunks sitting close to where the girls' feet can be seen poking out from under the towels concealing their bodies. A photographer who took photos at the scene told CNN the mood among sunbathers had been one of indifference."
""The most shocking aspect of all this is the attitude of the people on the beach," the statement said. "No one appears the slightest upset at the sight and presence of the children's dead bodies on the beach: they carry on swimming, sunbathing, sipping soft drinks and chatting."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
You’re supposed to ping ‘em if you mention ‘em. ;)
I believe that was the French.
I don’t understand what these people are supposed to do? Why was the beach not closed immediately by officials? What percentage of the seaside crowd even knew what was going on? What are they supposed to do, run away screaming?
Its really hard to get a read on what happened here. The Italians don’t like the Rom. When I lived in Naples I remember watching public service announcements warning against gypsys on AFRTS TV. This professionally done advertisement showed surveillance photos of Romany children gathering in the Piazza where they worked the crowd.
I was in a train one time in Moscow when a Rom mother with her child were standing beside my friend and I just in front of the doors. The train had finished loading and the kid went right into his pocket and grabbed his notebook. The mother grabbed the childs one arm and rushed the door which was closing.
He grabbed the kids other arm at the wrist and they had a tug of war with the kids arm getting caught in the door. He got his notebook back and I’m sure that kid had a sore arm. The other passengers, the ones that acknowledged it, just clucked their tongues and shook their heads.
Showing DEAD people from 9-11 would take it from being a number and a lot of smoke and broken glass.
The images of all death were suppressed from day one.
They have no qualms about showing our dead troops.
Tell me what THAT accomplishes. Their purpose in demanding photos of dead troops was to sink morale for the war.
Perhaps seeing our own dead citizens from an international attack on our homeland would get people to recall just how horrific the attacks were. The sheep are lulled. “We deserved it” is an attitude of professors on campuses.
I don’t want to see ANY dead bodies if the media is going to play this game.
They quickly rushed Nick Berg and other victims off the front page but kept Abu Ghraib on the front page for 30 days.
I loathe the media.
He did take photos of car crashes and gangster shootings. And he was as likely to photograph the crowds looking at the grue as he was the event itself. I don’t recall photos of the crowds and the body in the same shot.
The world is also a bit different place. In the 1950s and 1960s, people would line up at a car crash on the highway to take a look. One of the educational filmmakers in Ohio even captured the spectacle and would shoot his own footage of the people dying at the scene (upclose and with sounds of their dying gurgles). Horribly exploitive (you can learn about it in the documentary “Hell’s Highway”). But so were the people who were stopping to gawk and the police who permitted it.
Disney World is known for pulling this same sort of ploy.
it would show those who seem oblivious the nature of our foe and make folks in general angry
a good thing in wartime.
the demonization of the enemy is right
a Pulitzer winner but wasn't that Nanking?
i read the journalists rescued the baby too
War is hell indeed albeit very necessary at times
Absolutely heartbreaking photo.
I smell “Photo Shop.”
He did take photos of car crashes and gangster shootings
That’s how he got his name — like ther “ouigi board.” He’d often arrive before the cops.
Freelance photogs in those days would buy WWII army surplus tank radios, which were tuned to the same frequency as police radios. It was a simple matter of hooking it up to the car’s power supply.
“These are the same vacationers that let their parents die in the roasting heat a couple years back...”
I think that was the French.
http://www.globalaging.org/health/world/heatwave.htm
I think it is a long shot with a zoom lens. Here is CNN’s original headline, which was corrected later.
Italians sunbathe as Gypsy girls drown - CNN.com
I knew CNN would resist the urge to be a tabloid. /s
Yes, yes, and yes.
Well, if it happened here - families would be looking to sue, officials would start an “investigation” the beaches would be closed and somebody would be planning some kind of memorial (we would have to come up with some different ribbon color as most have taken by other “causes”) and Sharpton would be threatening some kind of boycott or rally until he got paid to shut the hell up.
This is an actual photo from WWII Japan. No photo shop then.
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