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mld, September 6, 2002 at 8:58:00 AM CEST

I'm A WarBlogger

I stand for crushing like a rabid rat any person, nation, or organization that attempts to harm our country or any person that lives here.

I'm a liberal. Liberal drives from the Latin liber, which means free. That, ultimately, is what America is all about - the right to be free, to do what one chooses, so long as that choice doesn't interfere with the freedom of others.

Free to choose what to do for a living, how to spend or invest the money I earn doing so, and to read, watch, consume, say, fuck, and play as I wish.

I'm a conservative. Conservative meaning to aim to conserve those rights and responsibilities held by the people, and not hand them over to the government. To keep that government on an austere fiscal diet, and only lend to it those few tasks that cannot be reasonably accomplished by private organizations.


 
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somebuddy, 4/1/03, 10:18 AM
WHY????

Why are the american tv stations not FREE F R E E free fREe FReE frEE FRee FUCKING-FREE to show dead american soldiers on TV??? Why is your free-fucking free-sucking free-talking country not free?

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mld, 4/1/03, 9:20 PM
Because. :-)

Think about it.

American TV stations are in fact free to broadcast whatever they want. If they are not showing such pics, it's because they don't want to.

My best guess is that they are choosing not to to avoid what would be the inevitable charge against them by the left - that by displaying such pictures they would be trying to enrage the US citizenry into hatred against the Iraqis.

Of course, if one believes that the media here has a leftist slant, then they may be declining to do so so that they don't further harden the popular support for the war. I'm reminded of a comment I got in email from a leftist freind who decried the media for showing clips of Palestinians dancing in the streets when the shuttle went down. She termed the reporting of this fact as "manipulation."

Another reasonable assumption would be that they don't want to show scenes that would be unsuitable for younger viewers.

Any such images are readily available to anyone that wants to see them on the web, and will certainly be published later in the flood of books that will be written about the war.

I'm guessing from the tone of your comment that you think that for US citizens to see such broadcasts would undermine support for the war. If so, you don't know the people here very well.

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