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To: mhking
I understand the outrage, but think for a minute -- CBS, especially, is sensitive to something like that. The FCC has all the broadcast outlets walking on eggshells right now. The notion of the airing of the full video is probably sending the executives in to spasms right about now

They'd air it without so much as a second thought if it were American soldiers doing that to a Muslim. In fact, they would make a miniseries out of it so as to spread it around some more.

44 posted on 05/11/2004 3:14:55 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: piasa
They'd air it without so much as a second thought if it were American soldiers doing that to a Muslim.

I don't want to see it -- I don't NEED to, I already know the score -- but I nonetheless wholeheartedly concur.

89 posted on 05/11/2004 3:31:22 PM PDT by L.N. Smithee (Just because I don't think like you doesn't mean I don't think for myself)
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To: piasa
FWIW -- ABC Radio News is on the hour is already spinning this as being the fault of the US for not getting him out earlier.
185 posted on 05/11/2004 4:02:18 PM PDT by L.N. Smithee (Just because I don't think like you doesn't mean I don't think for myself)
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To: piasa
They'd air it without so much as a second thought if it were American soldiers doing that to a Muslim

Exactly. Remember during the Vietnam War the picture of the Viet Cong prisoner being shot in the head by a South Vietnamese? They showed it then, over and over, and the photo appears in many books on that war.

There were and still are no quams from the Liberal media about using it and reusing it to make their point about how poorly we fought that war.

So you're right, the liberal media is again being biased in this instance, trying to prevent the public from getting the whole truth.

By the way, I just tried the number two times, letting it ring over and over, and no answer. Likely they've closed down for the night, but maybe they're just hiding!

382 posted on 05/11/2004 6:17:51 PM PDT by capocchio (Dubya has the public's hearts, but the media has their minds. But it could get worse.)
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