CBS showing pictures of dead Marines

[olbear]

"Who started going the stinky way of garnering support for this war by using obviously wrong information about non-existing WMD or links between Saddam and Osama"
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Why can't you stick to the topic thread? No, instead you want to start an argument

I do not believe for one second that Saddam had no WMD. He just had enough time (darn it) to hide or destroy them. He is not the innocent here for pitty sake. He has committed atrocities against his "own people". He starved them, gave them no health medical plan, lack of water and electricity, no education for many children, and especially females, poor sub standard housing.

All the media wants you to know is the "gore" and "gruesomeness". God forbid they should tell you the good and positive things that are happening over there because we have a country and leadership that has guts to do something about it.

I am a military/Navy wife (21 years). And I have been told personally by 3 soldiers that have returned from Iraq and Afghanistan, that many many people now have health care, better housing, water and electricity, and their children now have schools to attend, and wives are now being educated that wasn't allowed before this war. They are being taught to farm, and are being taught other job skills. They are experiencing freedoms they only dreamed of before this war.

Freedom, that is what is being paid for through the sacrifice of our brave men and women in uniform. And the thanks they get is disrespect by flashing such pictures for nothing more then sensationalism, ratings, and more then anything to make our leadership look bad.

God bless our troops and
God bless America

 

[dennis99ss]

olbear--I'm glad we are spending all of that money to educate the iraqis, give them health care, etc. I wish we could do the same for Americans. We could spend that money here, and make a difference for Americans.

 

[Van Helsing]

I'm glad we are spending all of that money to educate the iraqis, give them health care, etc. I wish we could do the same for Americans. We could spend that money here, and make a difference for Americans.

 

[Saffron]

Originally posted by bumcat
Give the media a foot and they'll take a mile.

How about pictures of dead police officers after a shoot out? or pictures of firemen that die during a fire? or pictures of those that die in car accidents or freak accidents? How about pictures of those after they have drowned?

Ask yourself if you would like to see your relative or spouse or child dead on TV? It's called respect for the family.

It doesn't make it any more right because it's soldiers.

I agree bumcat! Because Nick Berg and Paul Johnson have family here in our area, the coverage of their lives, their deaths and their families' grief has been almost non stop. But instead of showing pictures of the men from happier times, the local news stations constantly run the video tapes of the men after they were captured. It infuiates me that they keep showing the horrific, frightening, heart breaking moments before the deaths of the men, over, and over and over again. Those poor families can't even turn on the news to find out the local weather forcast without being subjected to those images.

I don't want to see anyone's dead body splashed across the TV screen, no matter how they died, no matter if it's a picture of a soldier on either side of the war, or a civilian on either side of the war, dead from any circumstance.

I saw all the images of the horrors of war during Vietnam and I don't want to see anymore.

Seeing dead bodies doesn't make the war any more real for me. I know what war does and I know what death looks like. Seeing the images won't change my mind for me about the war, one way or the other.

And some FYI for some -- families are not notified what is going to be aired on local or national news broadcasts. Often loved ones find out about tragedies through the news. Sad but true.

 

[wvrevy]

1 - Just for the record, Fox News also showed these pics, just so nobody thinks that it's just the "same ol' same ol' from the vast liberal media"

2 - I'm completely of two minds on showing these pics. On one hand, I agree that it's not exactly the most respectful thing to do. Those men and women did their duty as their leader asked them to, so showing what came as a result isn't exactly a great way to honor their memory. At the same time, it's pretty obvious that a lot of people DON'T "get it" that young men and women are dying every day in Iraq because of Dubya's decision to invade, so if showing those pictures reminds them of that then it does serve a larger purpose. I just don't know that I could make the decision to do so if I was a news director.

3 - I didn't get to see Dan Rather's tribute, as my fascist CBS affiliate was one of those that summarily decided that it's opinions were more important than anything else, so it wasn't shown in my area.

4 - If you don't think people's minds can be changed, you may want to compare the polls before the invasion with those now to see the kind of support it enjoys. Polls may not be all that accurate in predicting the future, but they can certainly be relied upon to give the current temperature at the time the poll is taken (particularly when you can compare two polls taken by the same source).