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  • Dr Mordrid
    Moderator
    • Apr 2001
    • 26592
    #1

    What's with Reuters??

    Today the Reuters news service saw fit to post a picture of the latest victim laying next to her car.

    Doesn't anyone over there have any humanity? Some relative looking for news or following a link could get a very nasty suprise.

    And Reuters says that using the term "terrorist" in their stories presents some kind of moral dilemma?

    Of course now every station from here to Timbuktu will put that image on TV for our kids to see.....

    Dr. Mordrid
    Last edited by Dr Mordrid; 15 October 2002, 07:02.
    Dr. Mordrid
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    • Dogbert
      #2
      Re: What's with Reuters??

      Originally posted by Dr Mordrid
      Doesn't anyone over there have any humanity?
      It's called 'pornography of terror / death'. Get used to that term. It started here with the big murderous suicide bombs in the center of Tel Aviv, continued with the bombing in the Dolphinarium and it isn't going to end any time soon.
      There have been many public debates about the big red line between "news", the privacy of the dead / wounded and their families, the right of the public to know and simple disgusting pornography to get higher viewing rates.

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        • GT98
          FanBoy
          • Aug 1999
          • 4408
          #3
          Re: Re: What's with Reuters??

          Originally posted by Dogbert

          There have been many public debates about the big red line between "news", the privacy of the dead / wounded and their families, the right of the public to know and simple disgusting pornography to get higher viewing rates.
          Yep all about the buck...gotta love Cable news....
          Why is it called tourist season, if we can't shoot at them?

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            • Dr Mordrid
              Moderator
              • Apr 2001
              • 26592
              #4
              Not just cable

              Dr. Mordrid
              Dr. Mordrid
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              An elephant is a mouse built to government specifications.

              I carry a gun because I can't throw a rock 1,250 fps

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                • K6-III
                  Super MURCer
                  • Dec 2000
                  • 2253
                  #5
                  The more people watch....the more advertisers will pay.....

                  News should not be a business.....period.
                  Let us return to the moon, to stay!!!

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                    • GNEP
                      Super MURCer
                      • Feb 2002
                      • 5241
                      #6
                      But then the BBC is hardly without its critics is it?

                      (Although I have to say that on a personal level I do like a lot of things that the BBC put out)

                      gnep
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                        • RedRed
                          Super MURCer
                          • May 2000
                          • 2423
                          #7
                          There is a history of these sorts of things....

                          Vietnam has the earliest that I can think of, involving civilians....

                          (girl running naked with her back on fire form a napalm drop)



                          Its just getting a bit more graphic, as the bounds of voyeurism broaden.....

                          Some people want to see this sort of thing, and it sells papers.....

                          RedRed
                          Dont just swallow the blue pill.

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                            • SpiralDragon
                              Super MURCer
                              • May 2002
                              • 3548
                              #8
                              the media is a prostitue..... i can tell you of several similar stories back here... the media is a prostitute...
                              "They say that dreams are real only as long as they last. Couldn't you say the same thing about life?"

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