Tuesday, May 11, 2004

Sensitivity or Reality?

This is from an Andrew Sullivan post today, regarding the video of the beheading of Nick Berg, titled “No More Double Standards."

"Let’s start an internet campaign to insist that the major media - including the New Yorker, the networks, the major newsweeklies, and every major paper - run a picture of Zarqawi holding up Nick Berg’s severed head. It’s time to release the Pearl video and stills too. Enough with the double standards. The media were absolutely right to show the abuse photos. But they are only part of the story. It’s about time the media gave us all of it, however harrowing it is."

This is from a post of my own, on May 7th, which expanded on the same idea from a post on April 11th of this year.

"I guess some images are better to show than others.  Those which humiliate the United States, show frequently, those images which elicit unity, well, better not show those."

Wake up.

Posted by John Venlet on 05/11 at 03:19 PM
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