the media in context
I found this on fark and considered it to be pretty apt when putting the hurt of our nation and its media coverage in context....
When a mentally unstable person goes on a shooting rampage in the US, no one questions that such actions are intrinsically, fundamentally and absolutely wrong. The media condemnation is 100 percent.
However -- even after four years of a U.S. war in Iraq that has been increasingly deplored by the American public -- the standard violence directed from the Pentagon does not undergo much critical scrutiny from American journalists. The president's war policies may come under withering media fire, but the daily activities of the U.S. armed forces are subjected to scant moral condemnation. Yet, under orders from the top, they routinely continue to inflict -- or serve as a catalyst for -- violence far more extensive than the shooting sprees that turned a placid Virginia campus into a slaughterhouse.
the source was not noted unfortunately. but in plain cold words there you go. i know why the media is covering what happened at virginia tech, but the extent they're doing it is in effect raping the students and only making their wounds deeper, and in iraq, aren't those dead just as human? or did i miss something in the run up to war?
When a mentally unstable person goes on a shooting rampage in the US, no one questions that such actions are intrinsically, fundamentally and absolutely wrong. The media condemnation is 100 percent.
However -- even after four years of a U.S. war in Iraq that has been increasingly deplored by the American public -- the standard violence directed from the Pentagon does not undergo much critical scrutiny from American journalists. The president's war policies may come under withering media fire, but the daily activities of the U.S. armed forces are subjected to scant moral condemnation. Yet, under orders from the top, they routinely continue to inflict -- or serve as a catalyst for -- violence far more extensive than the shooting sprees that turned a placid Virginia campus into a slaughterhouse.
the source was not noted unfortunately. but in plain cold words there you go. i know why the media is covering what happened at virginia tech, but the extent they're doing it is in effect raping the students and only making their wounds deeper, and in iraq, aren't those dead just as human? or did i miss something in the run up to war?