No, the MSM has not just surrendered to the Islamists, they have emerged as their best allies.
Please, please, phone, email, send letters, cancel subscriptions. Do something (non violent, of course) to show your displeasure.
BBC news this evening tried to have its cake and eat it too. It began the broadcast with the newly released pictures AND some of the old. Then, the anchor interviewed the Austalian Olivia Rousset, who got it from her" contacts" in Iraq. He asked her what was the news value of showing these photos given the fact that they are years old and that the guilty have been punished. Wasn't it just pouring oil on fire? She said something about insufficient accounting of higher ups. All the while, the pictures remained on the screen. They were rebroadcast at the end. The entire treatment was reminiscent of the Janet Jackson episode when the TV was showing over and over the"wardrobe malfunction."
Please, click here and let them have a piece of your mind.
To complain to CNN, email: Jack.Cafferty@turner.com
ACLU also released new photos it attained through the freedom of information act today. They want another investigation but claimed they are not behind the ones released in Australia. Just a coincidence. Defense complains it will cause additional violence.
ACLU Contact information: John Heffernan, 202-728-5335, ext 304, jheffernan@phrusa.org
They are also suing Rumsfeld.
The New York Times was not bad this morning. It merely printed one picture in the inside page.
The Financial Times, on the other hand, put a disgusting photo up on the front page. (email: letters.editor@ft.com London fax: 44 (0)20 7873 5938 NY fax: 1 212 641 6504
Again, unlike the cartoons these photos lack news value and serve merely to inflame.
Michelle Malkin raises questions but LGF concludes The Media are the Enemy
Kudos to FDD for posting the Saddam torture tapes. Perhaps we should send them to the MSM to suggest they can post them?
To read a public letter send by a jounalist to Australian SBS TV challenging their publicizing Abu Ghraib pictures but failing to show the cartoons, click here
Re: Isn't this the media's job?
I think that it is a good thing that the media are showing the people whose anus our tax dollars are helping to rape, and what people decorated by the American Flag (and one of the few groups allowed to be so decorated) are doing in my name and your name. None of my tax dollars went to publish the Mohammed cartoons.
Don't like the MSM? Then disconnect them.
It's time that the alternative media stop commenting on/whining about the bias of the MSM. Alternative media needs to replace the MSM.
Re: Don't like the MSM? Then disconnect them.
Re: Abu was - in context - playtime.
Remind me never to play any contact sports with you. For the record, shoving a lightstick up somebody's anus is not my idea of playtime, either to give or receive.
By the way, if you're defending something by saying, ``Yeah, but Saddam was worse,'' that's pretty sad.
Sadly Insane was really, really, really bad. If what we're doing is only really, really bad, that's still really, really bad.
What's next? ``Oh, he only killed a tenth of his population? That's OK; he's better than Pol Pot.''
Re: Isn't this the media's job?
Clearly, full and continuous reporting of the arrest and prosecution of the accused perpetrators at Abu Graib would have been more than sufficient, and would have made clear to the world our moral standards.
As such, the Abu Graib photos were published simply with the intent to undermine our national reputation in the Muslim world. Whereas the Comics were not published so as to avoid creating an environment in which Islam would have further opportunity to vividly demonstrate its backwardness and bigotry.
Thus you did answer the question.
IS THE HYPOCRACY NOT EVIDENT?
Clearly, it is. And treasonous, I think.
Re: Isn't this the media's job?
We fought to get these photos released. If we don't fight to keep the public aware of them, they will be censored again. And then the people who did this will get off scot free.
The Danish cartoons, a bunch of poorly-drawn cartoons, are not going to be censored, and the violence is being committed by foreign countries where we don't have any interest (no troops, no major trade) against another country where we don't have any interest.
And I think that the government does arrest treasonous citizens. q.v. Iyman Faris.
Oops! Sorry, I'm simplistic and naive.
Re: Isn't this the media's job?
Jack Cafferty rules
Don't shoot the messenger
Abu was - in context - playtime.
What US troopers did was nothing compared to what Saddass Hussein's did to their own.
Isn't this the media's job?
Re: Isn't this the media's job?
Further, is the hypocracy demonstrated by these same media outlets in refusing to publish the Islam Comics not painfully evident to you?
How's this: Isn't the government's job to arrest treasonous "citizens" and throw them in the slammer?
Re: Isn't this the media's job?
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Why did you link to the cartoons but not these pictures
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SHE DID!
Look at that strange underlined phrase at the end of the first paragraph. We call those hyperlinks. In this case that one goes to the Google News feed on the images. Which has over 700 articles, at last check.
Then, near the bottom, there's another link to the Physicians for Human Rights site, which....oh, I'm sorry, that just seems to link to substantive documents about the abuse, not inflammatory pictures of it. Actual news and information, not immediately useful for defaming the US in the Muslim world.
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Cafferty, Jack [Jack.Cafferty@turner.com]
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Hmmm...
How about a protest march?
MSM?
What does MSM stand for?
Re: MSM = MainStream Media