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- zfolwick, on 06/18/2008, -24/+203We feel lost and forgotten because we're defending people who are unwilling to defend themselves. Not Iraqis or Afghanis, AMERICANS! I'm ashamed that there's no public outrage. It's like people don't care. People don't even KNOW what their rights are. This administration should've been impeached a half-decade ago, but no-- 51% of the people RE-ELECTED THE GUY!
No excuse, republicans. No excuse liberals. Everybody in America should feel ashamed because of their lack of action. Instead, they pussyfoot around whining, "what can *I* do, I'm just one small person!". This is not the home of the brave with words like that. - digitalhair, on 06/18/2008, -8/+155the war profiteers must have learned their lesson back when the birth of TV journalism brought our boys home from Vietnam...
It infuriates me to hear them eulogizing the life of Tim Russert in a one hour special then, immediately after their looping coverage of the debate about whether we should loosen restrictions on off-shore oil drilling (while we have the highest oil reserves we've ever had), we hear them coldly report that the number of U.S. soldiers that have been killed in Iraq has climbed by 5 people to 4,150+ without showing us ONE image of a soldier's face to be able to comprehend the human loss of life.
people might dismiss my statement about Russert as insensitive, but they should really think about the context of the situation as it relates to their own self-preservation as citizens and not "Washington insiders."
I think it's rather contemptuous for TV journalists to focus airtime on their personal grief due to the loss of their close friend while they willfully go to work everyday and fail to object to suppression of coverage of the loss of OUR close friends...
it's a twisted scenario that escapes recognition in such a way that we should be profoundly questioning our complacency that, in reality, is really complicity. - Frostman3D, on 06/19/2008, -0/+72The problem is the News isn't the News any more..... It's entertainment.
- inactive, on 06/19/2008, -17/+87I'd hit Lara Logan
- SheilaNoya, on 06/18/2008, -8/+75The war in Iraq has been sanitized so all we ever see is the "Hallmark Card" version. The Bush Administration was very careful to "embed" journalists with the troops so our news is filtered and we aren't shown anything the military leadership doesn't want us to know about.
During the Vietnam War, all of the media (magazines, newspapers, and television) showed us the horrific pictures of the death and destruction of war. We saw the charred bodies, the slaughtered babies, the armless and legless soldiers, and the TRUTH about war. Today's MSM won't even show us our mangled veterans, or let us hear from the thousands of them who oppose the war (with the exception of a few spots on Keith Olbermann's show).
It's time for the MSM to stop kissing the ass of the Bush administration and let people see and hear the reality of what's going on in Iraq. When was the last time the media even mentioned the 4 million Iraqis who have been displaced by Bush's war? The entire coverage of this war has been white-washed and carefully filtered to make it more palatable for the gullible idiots and that makes me sick to my stomach. - ileen4justice, on 06/18/2008, -16/+80With all due respect my friend, THIS IS B.S.!! If you haven't checked lately, Iraq, post-Blackwater and Haliburton, has become a terrorist making machine. They don't need any f'in pictures -- THEY SEE UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL. Free speech demands that we bear witness to the horrors we are wreaking on the earth!!! Wake up and smell the white phosphorous illegal bombs and depleted uranium we dropped on the Iraqis (wait until you see those pictures!!) that are now causing deformed babies and cancer not only for the innocent Iraqis but for the U.S. soldiers who served there -- is that too sensitive an issue????
- geodebug, on 06/19/2008, -2/+57I think she's right, and unbelievably attractive.
- ileen4justice, on 06/18/2008, -7/+59As former Vice President Wallace stated:
"American fascism will not be really dangerous"...."until there is a purposeful coalition among the cartelists, the deliberate poisoners of public information..." - diggystardust, on 06/19/2008, -1/+49Hitting women is wrong.
- inactive, on 06/19/2008, -6/+514,000+ of our soldiers dead. 3 trillion dollars spent. Over one million dead iraqis.
It's time to find another way to "win" this "war". - girwen, on 06/18/2008, -21/+63“no one really understands” what is happening in Iraq. That is not a correct statement. The media war cheerleaders from FOX (undisputed champion cheerleader) all the way down to the WP and NYT (last two run hot and cold) try to limit coverage of anything that the defense industrial complex http://tinyurl.com/97d9d would get upset about.
- netfreehost, on 06/18/2008, -15/+53They hide things and only concerned about dead American soldier what about others injured in war ?
- familynight, on 06/18/2008, -3/+36How is it disrespectful to show a picture of someone's dead body? Journalists aren't going to make fun of the corpses of soldiers. Showing the body of a dead soldier could help make people more aware of the price of war. Right now, we are showing disrespect to our soldiers by ignoring them. I agree that the media should show soldiers respect but ignoring death is not any kind of respect.
Also, anti-American forces in Iraq have access to more than enough pictures of dead American soldiers, if that's what they want. From what I've seen and I'm not criticizing here, Al Jazeera doesn't hold back on the images of death. The idea that we shouldn't publish images of dead American soldiers because anti-American forces might use them is ludicrous. Graphic images of war published by the media were a major factor in turning public opinion away from the Vietnam War. The fact that the media has been so self-censored and confrontation averse with the current Iraq War is probably a pretty big part of why more Americans aren't demanding that the troops be sent home. - SeraphimJulius, on 06/19/2008, -2/+33It is a sad that I get most of my TV news from the Daily Show and Colbert Report...
When comedy shows are giving you more information about the world than real news shows, you know there is a problem. - purelithium, on 06/19/2008, -3/+32This is excellent, I'm happy that Jon Stewart is starting to be recognized as a legitimate News Man, and getting great stories from people. Congrats Jon, and thanks for showing another side of the story.
- pintomp3, on 06/19/2008, -5/+31so the proper way to show respect for a soldiers death is to ignore it and pretend it doesn't happen?
- digitalhair, on 06/18/2008, -4/+29this is all dogma. anybody with a practical sense of reality would not defend the lack of hard-hitting, up-close-and-personal, and visually-objective news coverage by assuming that any call for increased accountability would result in the publication of exploitative and graphic images that dishonored the lives of the soldiers depicted.
WE CAN'T EVEN HAVE PHOTOS OF THEIR CASKETS PUBLISHED without some CHIMP declaring that they were offended by the lack of "respect" shown by the media, when it really has more to do with being offended that they reminded you that those boys died defending your daily apathy!!!
How, sir, does your position make sense if the meaningless phrase "I'm completely for bringing all U.S. troops home" is so uninspired that it simply perpetuates the continued acceptance for any lack of significant action toward that goal?
The whole point is that your continued lack of exposure to the harsh reality of this war has facilitated your self-absorbed notion that you're meaningless "support" is righteous and patriotic when, in fact, it's actually an empty gesture that acts to facilitate more unnecessary death and a subsequent increase in the lack of the necessary news coverage of it - news coverage moving enough to motivate self-affirming zombies like yourself to actually DO something supportive instead of - if you'll allow me to paraphrase Mahatma Ghandi - "be[-ing] the [*****] that you wish to see in the world." - jrw5362, on 06/19/2008, -2/+24This Daily show episode riveted me. Chills went up and down my body. What the hell are we doing about Iraq and Afghanistan?!
- inactive, on 06/18/2008, -6/+27They do show picture of Iraqi civilians, but the sad truth is Americans care much more about the deaths of their on people than the deaths of people in a far off country.
- inhaler, on 06/19/2008, -6/+26Think for yourself.
- inactive, on 06/18/2008, -1/+20Im always scared as to where tinyurls lead to.
- DavidThaGnome, on 06/19/2008, -3/+21 Well as an American who watches and reads only network news and mainstream media I can confidently say that war is comprised of nothing more than, large black and green fireworks shows, perfectly framed sunrises shining down upon our soldiers silhouettes as they gaze off the side of an aircraft carrier in classic boy band formation.
Getting hugged by thankful Iraqi's, saving lost dogs and all the while fighting the "enemy" with robots from the safety of a big blue tinted room covered in holograms and doohickeys.
It's funny, I remember during Vietnam you could see people dying on the news and it was generally a lot more war like. Well I imagine with computers and and cell phones nowadays you most likely can just zap your enemy with a mind lazer or email them aids or something. I'm not real good with computers, I'd much rather just watch the TV, oh gotta go, American Idol is on...sweeeet. - Ne007, on 06/19/2008, -7/+25Go back to sleep...our media doesn't give a *****!
hell...they are part of the military industrial complex... - akula89, on 06/19/2008, -1/+18get involved, get informed, inform others. protest. Write your congressmen, get involved in politics at a local level. donate money to worthy causes.
- Zarokima, on 06/19/2008, -4/+21Keymanjim2 loves little boys. He masturbates to them.
Wow, this is easy! - shondell, on 06/19/2008, -0/+17I was wondering what was up with all these smart comments about the Iraq war and the mass media. I was beginning to think I wasn't on Digg anymore till I saw your comment.
Anyways, Dugg for *****. - pintomp3, on 06/19/2008, -2/+19one of the things that helped end the vietnam war was color tv. seeing the images of soldiers bleeding drove home the sacrifice we were making. the pentagon was determined to not let this happen again, so they embedded the journalists so they could not cover the stories or show images in a neutral detached manner.
- kanvas, on 06/19/2008, -1/+17What do you suggest?
- inactive, on 06/19/2008, -0/+15and well you should be
- inactive, on 06/18/2008, -7/+22That show brought down the White house. National participation of presidential impeachment is now in your hands. go to impeachmentforpeace.org and print off your own petition for impeachment.
- inactive, on 06/19/2008, -1/+15What if they ask for it?
- dwright99, on 06/19/2008, -1/+15Well said.
- inactive, on 06/18/2008, -2/+15"Neither Democrats nor Republicans are pro-war"
How do you square a statement like this with reality? - tidu, on 06/19/2008, -0/+13actually, both parties are pro-war if it's in their best interest: money and power.
- RiverBelow, on 06/19/2008, -1/+12OK well my aunt recently died, would you like to come to Canada and attend her funeral?
- kenvsryu, on 06/19/2008, -3/+14The public is now focused on gas prices. The war is so 2006.
- luciferin, on 06/19/2008, -0/+11If I ever, EVER, haul my ass across this ***** planet and hold a gun to another human being's skull so that you can drink your morning coffee and read the newspaper then you better show me the god damn respect I deserve by looking at the pictures of my maimed body lying on the ground and covered in blood published on the first page. Because I would have had to go through every second of that pain for you.
The LEAST you can do for those that die for you is to show them the respect of seeing and acknowledging their sacrifice.
So you either look at the ***** blood running down my face, or down my son's face, or down my god damned father's face. Or else they died in vain. - AlanFang, on 06/19/2008, -6/+17I am pretty sure the hotness factor of Lara Logan is why this is getting so much press online. No one cares when an old distinguished male journalist says something, but if it's a hot young woman they pay attention. Not saying this is necessarily a bad thing, just my observation.
- swellman, on 06/19/2008, -5/+16But wait, I thought the media had a liberal bias? And if they are liberal and oppose the war, why won't they show the public such things? Oh right, they aren't liberal at all. They are just a bunch of corporate shills and shamefully unprofessional. There are some exceptions of course, but not nearly enough.
- inactive, on 06/19/2008, -0/+11 What are you smoking? Do you have any idea of the History in this region? Any idea of how many countries over the centuries have tried? The ''Ho-rah'' mentality has gone to your head.
- andy314159pi, on 06/19/2008, -3/+14Right, but Japan declared war on us. Iraq was just sorta hanging out oppressing its own people. If we took arms against every nation that oppressed its own people, we'd be totally fukced.
- seantubridy, on 06/19/2008, -0/+11If it took showing my child's dead body on national television to make people aware of the horrors of war, then yes, I'd allow it and have to deal with it. No, it wouldn't be pleasant but maybe it would do more good that actually fighting a pointless, illegal war ever could. At least it would give some purpose to their death.
- Darmichar, on 06/19/2008, -0/+10Who are you referring to?
- siszam, on 06/19/2008, -1/+11It's disgusting that anyone would support wars that kill our sons and daughters. THAT is the disgusting thing. I specifically watch PBS because they show the deaths and don't treat them like forgettable garbage like Republicans do.
- inactive, on 06/19/2008, -1/+11Neither the right or the left are happy with the death of soldiers. Don't pretend otherwise but ignoring the fact of their deaths dishonors their sacrifice.
- DiggMasterJ, on 06/19/2008, -0/+10It's like a stranger saying: "take my hand, I'll show you something nice".
And then you do. - PolarBearCa, on 06/19/2008, -1/+11"Hallmark Card"? Nah, it's more like the A-Team version.
No blood, no one dies, and 'bad guys' are brought to justice among lots of explosions. - siszam, on 06/19/2008, -1/+10The people who ignore it are the people who cheer the war on like it's a game. Republicans need to see the people they are responsible for killing. They use propaganda to glorify their cause and treat our troops like they are disposable and not real sons and daughters. Americans need to see bodies. It's disrespectful to our troops for their deaths to be minimized and hidden. As the parent of a Marine I can tell you, if my son died I would want his picture plastered everywhere so his murderers couldn't pretend that war is some wonderful, patriotic thing that inspires picnics and bumper stickers. If those people won't send their precious snowflakes to fight their damned war then the very least they deserve is a daily reminder of all the casualties. Not numbers but real faces.
- dionysius89, on 06/19/2008, -6/+15There are more important things to cover. Like Obama's Baby Mama.
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