Furious

I’m pissed. There’s no other words to describe how I feel.
As I was watching CNN Headline News at lunch today, those ghouls decided it would be a good idea to run footage of the U.S. soldiers killed in Ramahdi this morning. There they lay, still, dead and bloodied. I had to get out of the room. The amount of rage I have towards those craven, cowardly fools at CNN knows no bounds.
Have the families of the soldiers killed even had time to be notified?
Why will they run footage of these brave men killed in the line of duty, yet they refuse to run footage of Nick Berg or Paul Johnson’s grisly murders or even the aftermath thereof?
I’m so angry I can barely speak.

4 Comments

Well either we should show all the nasty pictures that war creates, or none of them.
Personally I say all, because I think it’s closer to the truth, and I have a strong
stomach.

You’re missing my point. These American news outlets are actively running anti-American propaganda by means of

  1. Negative reports about US actions
  2. Footage of war dead/casualties that cast the invasion in a negative light
  3. Refusing to run graphic imagery of th murder victims like Nick Berg and Paul Johnson while running graphic imagery of our military dead

I’m furious. They either need to run all the footage they get and run a balance of stories or they need to openly admit to their anti-Bush anti-military propagandistic intent.

I agree the media are biased, but the bias isn’t pro or anti US, it’s pro sales.
They print what sells. Fact is, four of our guys dying is a bigger story than four
of their guys dying. And an operation where lots of people die on both sides is a
bigger story than one where no-one dies and they sort it out peacefully.
It’s true that in war, these days, a set back for ‘us’ is a much bigger story than
an everyday success for us. But it’s particularly true because like it or not, this
simply isn’t a popular war. Some wars are popular, some aren’t, and this isn’t.
Another problem is the security situation there. Currently, only trained war reporters
are really going near the place, and those kind of reports are basically trained to
go and take pictures of fights, or the immediate aftermath. If the country was more
stable, a much broader range of news crews would be there, and they’d be reporting on
more of the positive non-military aspects of the whole operation.

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