The media has a role in the news it covers. It is time to take responsibility for that.
Econo-Girl has never linked to the video clip of Saddam Hussein's execution. There 's a reason for that. There is no news value in it for the mass audience. The same holds true for the beheading of U.S. hostages.
And while we're on the subject, the same applies to media coverage of 9-11-01. The same gruesome and pointless footage was shown for one solid week. Only PBS earned my respect by providing meaningful coverage. The rest of them just repeated themselves over and over again for days on end while feeding on human desperation.
And how about school yard killings? The U.S. media coverage of those inspires other psychos to do the same thing.
Young boys have killed themselves imitating the execution of Saddam Hussein. There should be a violence restriction as well as a sexual content restriction on video and photos. Violent images are more damaging than sexual ones.
Click on the title to this post to read the article in the Jerusalem Post.
Showing posts with label execution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label execution. Show all posts
1.02.2007
Saddam Hussein's Execution - Take the Al Jazeera Poll!
Yes, my little dumplings. There is a popular poll right now on Al Jazeera's front page on whether or not Saddam Hussein should have been hung.
Vote now! Click on the title to this post and let the world know what you think!
Vote now! Click on the title to this post and let the world know what you think!
1.01.2007
What? "World Opinion Split Over Saddam Hussein's Execution"
It seems that in Turkey, the online publication Zaman.com has found a professor who thinks that Saddam Hussein's execution was illegal. This man's opinion is the basis for an article quoted in the title above.
And in TANJUG in Serbia at http://www.tanjug.co.yu/news.aspx?rbx=2&rbxn=Serbia%20and%20World, the Serbian Justice Minister Zoran Stojkovic said that the execution of Saddam Hussein will be a disaster for Iraq.
Econo-Girl thought her readers might be interested in another perspective, especially one so divergent from what is heard here in the U.S. We're certainly not hearing anything like that here.
And in TANJUG in Serbia at http://www.tanjug.co.yu/news.aspx?rbx=2&rbxn=Serbia%20and%20World, the Serbian Justice Minister Zoran Stojkovic said that the execution of Saddam Hussein will be a disaster for Iraq.
Econo-Girl thought her readers might be interested in another perspective, especially one so divergent from what is heard here in the U.S. We're certainly not hearing anything like that here.
Saddam Hussein's Execution
The world is simply different now. Expectations of privacy are passe, even at an execution. No concept of dignity attaches anymore as everyone has a mobile film recorder with them at all times. The most indecent, ill-thought action can be viewed by the entire world.
Not only that, it can define your whole life. Imagine spending the next fifty years having to explain why you spat out that birthday cake and it landed on the cat. Did you aim the semi-chewed sweet at the cat? Were you a cat-hater? My cat saved my life, you know. Such are the conversational openers you would hear for the rest of your life.
And Saddam Hussein is no exception. In the end, his defining moment was his execution. And Econo-Girl cannot complain about the sneaky filming of his death. What relief it must bring to those who suffered from Saddam Hussein's evil to see his reckoning. "There! That's the man who killed my family! Ha! He is not so big now!"
In a global spiritual sense, wouldn't the fear that you might be on t.v. cause a person to temper their behaviour? Econo-Girl thinks so. And if one were a despot, wouldn't the idea that one day you would have to answer for your choices influence them?
Not really. After all, Econo-Girl is sure that Rumsfeld never thought so.
Not only that, it can define your whole life. Imagine spending the next fifty years having to explain why you spat out that birthday cake and it landed on the cat. Did you aim the semi-chewed sweet at the cat? Were you a cat-hater? My cat saved my life, you know. Such are the conversational openers you would hear for the rest of your life.
And Saddam Hussein is no exception. In the end, his defining moment was his execution. And Econo-Girl cannot complain about the sneaky filming of his death. What relief it must bring to those who suffered from Saddam Hussein's evil to see his reckoning. "There! That's the man who killed my family! Ha! He is not so big now!"
In a global spiritual sense, wouldn't the fear that you might be on t.v. cause a person to temper their behaviour? Econo-Girl thinks so. And if one were a despot, wouldn't the idea that one day you would have to answer for your choices influence them?
Not really. After all, Econo-Girl is sure that Rumsfeld never thought so.
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