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The Nick Berg video: media double standard
I see that I am not alone in noting the double standard here. The media eagerly shows pictures from the Iraqi prison that make American soldiers look bad, but then avoids showing us the Nick Berg video, and even reporting facts about the execution, because this would make our enemies look bad.
Robert Cox at the blog The National Debate writes:
American television news organization rediscovered their long-standing reticence to show images of brutality that might "offend" viewers, a reticence lost several weeks ago when photos began to emerge from the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. News organizations had previously enforced a policy to shield viewers from gruesome images including those of men and women jumping from the World Trade Center, from the bodies blown apart in the bombing of the East Africa embassies, the bodies of sailors from the U.S.S. cole, the American dead from Khobar towers, the burned American bodies from the Bali bombings, from Daniel Pearl's slit throat and decapitated head. Over the past few weeks the American media abandon this policy and somehow found the courage to show the "horrible pictures of abuse" that are "tantamount to torture" coming out of Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
The Boston Globe was so eager to maker our troops look bad that it published fake photos that purported to show American soldiers raping Iraqi women. (See WorldNetDaily: Globe publishes apology for fake 'GI rape' photos.)
posted Thursday, May 13, 2004
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