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Old Jul 13th, 2004, 04:58 PM        Images of the war in the media.
So I went to see Amy Goodman in Tampa last weekend. It was a great speech, large crowd of well over 1,000 people. Huge anti-Bush crowd there obviously, and although Amy is far left she still rallies against the Democratic party too. For most of her speech she was focused on the current administration and the media, but she got to a part where she became very venemous against the Clinton administration, and I noticed a few people get up and leave. I thought that was very hypocritical, the crowd was roaring and stood up to cheer when she said that Bush should be persecuted for war crimes, but she speaks against a Democratic president and some people leave. Granted it was a small group that left, but still. This is the same person talking, you agreed with her, now she's saying something that you maybe don't like to hear so you decide to leave? If you don't hear it does that mean it didn't happen?

In that small action I think there is a parallel to another one of the topics she talked about, the images of the war in the media.

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This article says that half of Americans are opposed to the AVAILBILITY of graphic images from the war online. Not only do they not want to see what the war is all about, but they don't want others to see. Ignorance due to lack of information can be excused. Willful ignorance because the truth is uncomfortable cannot be excused.

This problem is even worse in the American news media, on television and in print.

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This link goes to a video, it's (I assume) the same one I got while I was at the Amy Goodman event. It talks about this problem. One of the major points from the video is the difference between CNN and CNN International. One example it gives is during the tearing down of the Saddam statue early in the war, CNN in America showed a full screen of the event, CNN International showed a split-screen; the statue falling on one side, and the images of dead and suffereing Iraqi's on the other. Remember, this isn't the difference between CNN and Al Jazzerra, but instead two outlets of the same company.

Why, in America, is there the refusal to show the results of war? We never see any of the images, shown around the rest of the world, of dead children, or women with their limbs blown off as a result of American bombs. Early in the war, when the media was cheerleading, I can see why (although that doesn't make it excusable). But now, when the media is seemingly trying to be more responsible and examine criticsim of the war, does it still fail to show or in any way describe, the human casualties of this war? Is this a case of, "if I don't see it, it doesn't exist"?
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Old Jul 13th, 2004, 06:24 PM       
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Why, in America, is there the refusal to show the results of war?
Because when they did so during the Vietnam war the results were disastrous for the various administrations. Which is why they also played down the extent of the anti-war rallies prior to this current war. It's been bad for a while now. Remember Panama? Dan Jennings Brokaw or whoever standing in Norriega's office: "I'm standing in Manuel Norriega's lair..." It was a little office with a desk, a couple of file cabinets, a credenza and an old IBM Selectric. Lair?
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