Who watches Al Jazeera?

[Asher]

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Who watches Al Jazeera?

Originally posted by Urban Ranger
So, are you suggesting that the media should "sanitise" what they show?

Yes, the mainstream media should be "sanitised" so it's not offensive and disturbing to the point where people do not watch it.

I believe the full-gore versions should be available to everyone to see, but not by default.

I'm all for people setting up their own channels similar to CNN that has no morals/guidelines about showing the excessive blood, gore, and devastation of war -- I just don't want to see CNN/MSNBC/BBC/etc go to hell to satisfy the people who think we should see soldiers without their heads, people with blood gushing from where their arm used to be, and that kind of thing.

I know that kind of stuff happens, I don't care to see it when I'm watching the news and eating breakfast.

Simple as that.

[Dis]

Asher. There is a simple solution.

Let the market decide what it wants to see.

captialism can work if these damn lefties and anarchists would give it a chance.

[Asher]

Absolutely. Start a competing network like CNN that has no guidelines/respect for the dead in combat. Just leave CNN so I can watch something.

[Dis]

The only reason I'm against CNN is because all they have are analysts

Fox was showing a lot of Sky News coverage before, but today they have gone back to talking heads

Arggh. There are no good news networks in the U.S. I don't want to see dead bodies. But I would like to see video of what is going on. ie live coverage. If by some unforseen thing I see someone killed on live tv- sobeit.

[Hurricane]

Originally posted by TheStinger
Does anyone think WW1 would have continued past Verdun and the Somme if there was reporting like we see today.

I think this is a very valid question. Yes? No?

[TheStinger]

My answer would be the war would have stopped. Especialy as there was an abscence of an obvious bad guy

[Willem]

Originally posted by Hurricane


I think this is a very valid question. Yes? No?

If you're talking about what we see on CNN et al, I'd say no. They're just acting like a rah rah chorus in support of the Coalition. But if you're talking about the kind of journalism that covered the Vietnam war, then I'd say yes. There's a very good reason why the US Armed Forces have taken firm control of the media coverage since then.

[GePap]

The Pollyanish stance of the press in Rich countries greatly differs form that of poorer regions.

In Panama, front page of the tabloids they show you the badly mangled corpses of whomever died in the headline accident or shooting. Certainly in the Arab press seeing dead bodies on TV is nothing new. And no one gives any warning, or censors the pics from their kids.
Human beings can handle the view of death: perhaps only in the last 100 years have significant numbers of people being able to divorce themselves from death so completely as to shirk at seeing a corpse.

[Agathon]

Asher you are losing badly.

Asher a song for you...

"Desperado... why won't you come to your senses..."

[yavoon]

man this is the worst thread ever. disappointed I read it.

[Nubclear]

I've chosen to continue the discussion with Asher through PM

[Imran Siddiqui]

Appeasement was in large part a product of the British upper class's sympathy for fascism.

May be, but it isn't like Chamberlain and most of Labor leadership came from families of mine workers.

No ashwer, I dont want to FORCE them.

Well, it kinda sounds like you do. You want people to KNOW the results of their action, and you think news channels SHOULD show it, or else they are lying.

[JCG]

Give people the option to see the gore/abuse/death, but don't force them...I agree that a 24/7 "Blood and Guts" channel would make people stop complaining about lack of coverage/censorship. Yes, standard U.S. TV is far too sanitized but that won't change anytime soon.

Still, who knows, such a channel might actually become popular among a select group of people, just like sensationalistic tabloids...

[Uncle Sparky]

I also feel that dead bodies should be shown. It is the reality of war.

Whenever posible, the names of the people killed should also be used in the broadcasts. This would include the names of Iraqi civilians and soldiers.

Maybe then armchair hawks will realize that the stats were actually people who lived, breathed, had hopes, fears & actually lived.

You'd think 9/11 would have showed Americans that, but I guess not.

[Dis]

But does Iraqi tv give the name of the U.S. soldiers killed?