CNN’s Anti-American, Seditious and Treasonous display of sniper film.

[elsol]

Never has the viewing public seen the pictures of those victims who leapt to their deaths from the World Trade Center, rather than suffer the pain of being burnt to death.

This is not true.

They did show the videos of that... I remember watching a woman and man who jumped hand in hand.

My girlfriend fell apart.

And yes, you could hear the thud as they hit.

It was done on network television and cable... about a year after the show; it was the video of the newsman who was actually in the building.

Sincerely,
ElSol

 

[wazhazhe]

Land of the Free.
Free speech.


I plead the Fifth.

There would be an outcry at such censorship here.
In the land of Censorship.

It's surprising to me there hasn't been one.

 

[SeaCat]

Seacat...forgive me...I am of the old school, I guess, a newscast, to me, was a news cast, with information gained from AP associated Press, or UPI United Press International, I was kind of a 'rip and read' newscaster in the early days and we took the news as the holy grail, we merely read and reported.

Then there was talk radio, opinion editorials, 'op eds', as they refer to them now, but even then, I did, as I do now, offer authentication to any 'opinion' I express and usually, then, attempt to find a common rational groud upon which to expand the news items....as you will see from my latest post on Korea...

News and politics and entertainment, have gradually merged over the years, which is partly why I am no longer active in broadcast media, I don't do that.

Thus I have moved to the arena of 'fiction', within which I can express my thoughts and attempt to provide a rational and logical basis for the actions and thoughts of my characters, without contradicting my intellectual principles.

Which is seen as a little silly by most on this forum as they accept no, 'absolute' principles of ethical or moral conduct and consider my efforts as not worthy of consideration in the relativistic world they inhabit.

I suggest that if someone were to read any of my works a thousand years into the future, they would understand the moral, ethical, logical and rational basis upon which my thoughts were formed and understand what I write as few seem to, today.

But then, neither you nor I will ever know, will we?

amicus...

Amicus,

I as you are am a news Junkie. I get my news from AP, UPI and multiple Newspapers.

Unless I was there I take no ones words as gospel. I know too well how words can be manipulated.

However we both know how Television and Radio operates. If a program can't show a profit then they will be canceled. What makes people come back and watch and/or listen some more? Controversy.

What makes controversy? Is it our soldiers defending themselves, or is it the perception that our soldiers are commiting attrocities against the so called helpless? Much like how the local newspapers don't report the common crimes of murder, yet they cover ad nauseum the killing of a criminal by a police officer.

The more people who listen or watch, the more money the station receives. Money,a s you have so often stated is what makes the world go around. That being said how can you fault a news channel for showing this and playing it up? Is this not free trade?

Cat

 

[amicus]

SeaCat....not an inaccurate take on the broadcast industry of today, I suppose, but it has not always been that way.

Like Supermarket advertising, a 'loss leader' offers a sale price below cost to draw customers, the purpose being to bring in more people.

Radio and Television news, used to be the reverse of that, they were not considered 'revenue producing' programs, were not even expected to pay their own way but were supported by other programming and other advertising. News was considered a 'public service' and may have, at one time, been required by the FCC to account for a specific period of time in the broadcast day.

But the pace of the world has picked up somewhat in the past generation or so, what with satellite television, the internet and with everyone being wired into everything and increased participation in stock markets around the world on a 24/7 basis, a world unheard as short a time ago as the 1960's. We tend to forget the JFK and Nixon, in their decisive debate, was broadcast in black and white, there was no color television in 1960.

And of course, the advent of cable television networks....once upon a time and not so long ago, there was only ABC, CBS and NBC...nothing else; those three radio and television networks and nothing more and as you noted they all depended on news services to deliver the product. Now, of course, they all have their own news resources and AP, Reuters and UPI are simply confimatory sources, time does move right along...


amicus...