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Media Want More Photos of Dead GIs
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| May 23, 2005
| Carl Limbacher
Posted on 05/23/2005 10:21:27 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: EdHallick
We can`t even show pictures of them wearing underwear on their heads.Hell, they're complaining about pictures of Saddam wearing his own underwear where it belongs!!! Besides, I think he looked entirely too healthy and well-kept.
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posted on
05/23/2005 10:45:08 AM PDT
by
jdsteel
(We need 2 new refineries, 20 new nuclear power plants and ANWAR ASAP)
To: EdHallick
LA Times rymes with slimes. A perfect description of a leftwing rag. Need I say more?
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posted on
05/23/2005 10:45:38 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
To: Kaslin
We got the bubble-headed-bleach-blonde who
Comes on at five
She can tell you bout the plane crash with a gleam
In her eye
Its interesting when people die-
Give us dirty laundry
Can we film the operation?
Is the head dead yet?
You know, the boys in the newsroom got a
Running bet
Get the widow on the set!
We need dirty laundry
You dont really need to find out whats going on
You dont really want to know just how far its gone
Just leave well enough alone
Eat your dirty laundry
Kick em when theyre up
Kick em when theyre down
Kick em when theyre up
Kick em when theyre down
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posted on
05/23/2005 10:51:17 AM PDT
by
TheForceOfOne
(My tagline is currently being blocked by Congressional filibuster for being to harsh.)
To: CheneyChick
Picture of Saddam in his tighty-whitey's got lots of attentionAnd the MSM is outraged
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posted on
05/23/2005 10:51:22 AM PDT
by
Kaslin
To: Kaslin
There can be horrible images, but war is horrible and we need to understand that," veteran war photographer Chris Hondros told the Times. Thanks, Chris. I mean, if it weren't for the journalists we'd all be thinking that war is just one big campfire weenie-roast, right?
Underlying all these people's comments is a condescension so ingrained that they don't even notice it anymore. And it is definitely more than the usual cliches about "bearing witness."
"I think if we are going to start a war, we ought to be willing to show the consequences of that war."
Which, translated, says "America was wrong and we're going to keep showing distressing images until it reforms." Thanks but no thanks.
To: Kaslin
If the media would like to publish pictures of the horror of innocent death, I think they should put together a 20/20 or Dateline show that shows the horror of abortion.
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posted on
05/23/2005 10:54:23 AM PDT
by
BobCNY
To: ANGGAPO
They could cover a funeral at a National Cemetery. Of course, that runs the risk of a punch in the nose...can't do that.
To: VRWCmember
Anymore? They censored most of those pictures from the start. How about the media helping get this war over with instead of prolonging it for a change? Why doesn't anybody talk about them shutting up so we can get the damn job done. This makes me angry so far down deep I can't even express it.
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posted on
05/23/2005 10:55:29 AM PDT
by
johnb838
(Liberalism = Leninism.... Liberalism = Bolshevism)
To: Kaslin
Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans PING
In a comprehensive report on Saturday, the Los Angeles Times noted:
"A review of six prominent U.S. newspapers and the nation's two most popular newsmagazines during a recent six-month period found almost no pictures from the war zone of Americans killed in action."
The paper explained:
"Many photographers and editors believe they are delivering Americans an incomplete portrait of the violence that has killed 1,797 U.S. service members and their Western allies and wounded 12,516 Americans."
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posted on
05/23/2005 10:56:06 AM PDT
by
weegee
("Do you want them to write a piece about how great the military is?" Elizabeth Bumiller - NY Times)
To: VRWCmember
Yes, they should just show more pictures of 9-11. Maybe some of the pictures that they thought to horrible to print.
To: Kaslin
That is very, very sick.
I keep thinking that the left and the MSM can't go any lower and they continually prove me wrong.
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posted on
05/23/2005 11:04:29 AM PDT
by
Stashiu
(RVN, 1969-70)
To: Kaslin
Why didn't the MSM make this request during the Kosovo War?
To: TheForceOfOne
On an Eagles roll, how about Don Henley's 'Get Over It' for the filibustering Dims, about this time tomorrow.
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posted on
05/23/2005 11:10:03 AM PDT
by
tumblindice
(time to move on, moveon)
To: jdsteel
I know right? I mean look how the media reacted when those photos came out.. "It will enflame Iraqis, it will anger Muslims!!" and then they start pushing "We need an investigation, who took the pictures! This is an outrage of the Geneva convention!"
This is a mass murderer, thousands of mass graves in Iraq and they are concerned about his freggin` honor and privacy. Unreal. If it was up to me, I`d throw the mutt naked in the street in the middle Baghdad, and film it as he`s torn apart by the Iraqis. Let them do a Mussolini to him and hang him upside down like a dog.
To: VRWCmember
Let's see some pictures of the firemen and policemen pulling their brothers out of the rubble of the WTC. Why don't they want to show those pictures anymore?Because that would only incite us to anger and violence towards Muslims, so they say. They can't have that when they want to incite us to anger and violence towards the Bush Administration instead.
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posted on
05/23/2005 11:13:35 AM PDT
by
frankiep
To: Kaslin
American photojournalists and their editors are... saying that the nation isn't getting an accurate picture of the horrors of war. American soldiers are saying that the MSM is not giving an acurate picture of the successes and progress being made in Iraq.
Who ya gonna believe?
Besides, we know the horrors of war. We don't need the likes of Newsweek to show us.
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posted on
05/23/2005 11:16:15 AM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(If you only knew the powerrrrr of the Tagline.)
To: Kaslin
Pim Van Hemmen, assistant managing editor for photography at the Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., agreed, telling the Times: "Writing in a headline that 1,500 Americans have died doesn't give you nearly the impact of showing one serviceman who is dead." This is only true if you're a photography editor propagandist who wants to affect the war. The rest of us know what 1,500 dead soldiers means, and you can bet the Iraqis know what it means: It means they get to do the purple finger thing instead of the finger-beaten-off-with-an-iron-rod-thing.
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posted on
05/23/2005 11:19:54 AM PDT
by
Mr. Silverback
("Slippery slope? Try cliffdiving."--Freeper Crazieman comments on the post-Terri world.)
To: VRWCmember
This makes me angry. Really, really angry. You hit it right on the money.
For fair and honest reporting, I say, okay. First, we show the images of the actions of the sub-human scum we are up against.
We should show the hostages having their head slowly and deliberately sawed off while the hostages scream in pain and those assholes chant "God is Great". We should show images of the people leaping from the WTC. We should show the mangled parts of bodies the firefighters and rescuers had to put into bags. We should show recreations of Mr. Klinghoffer being shot and thrown off the deck of the Achille Lauro. We should show Navy diver Robert Stethem being shot in the head and being thrown out the back of the plane like a garbage bag. We should show the broken and torn bodies of the victims of the Rome airport bombing. We should show a recreation of the bomb going off in the plane, and people being sucked, alive, out of the fuselage while still strapped in their seats and plummeting to the Mediterrainian below. They should show the children, huddling in terror, being held hostage in a school in Russia, being coldly shot to death. And so on.
Then, and only then, we should could the broken or dying body of one of our soldiers with his face blurred out.
These journalists are anti-American, sick and biased. I am damned tired of it. Boy this really burns my ass.
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posted on
05/23/2005 11:25:19 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
To: AmericanArchConservative; jan in Colorado
Did you ever see the movie Harrison's Flowers? It was about the journalists who went to document the war in former Yugoslavia.
They dedicated the movie to the forty-eight journalists and photographers who died there; as though going into a war zone in of itself is some kind of badge of honor.
How would they like their families to see their bodies smashed up all over the front pages? Bloody hypocrites. I despise these jackals.
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posted on
05/23/2005 11:29:31 AM PDT
by
ariamne
(reformed liberal--Shieldmaiden of the Infidel)
To: rlmorel
Furthermore, I am writing those SOB's at that paper.
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posted on
05/23/2005 11:29:40 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
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