The Media is a Love/Hate Relationship...

[Pako]

So, Iraqi television plastered pictures of the POW's which is againt the Geneva Convention (sp?). So what does CNN do? They plaster pictures from Iraqi TV of the POW's. Then they discuss how it's against the Geneva Convention for Iraqi TV to show those pictures.

Granted, without the media, there would little or no coverage of what's going on, but it would be nice if they took a little reservation once in a while.

Anyone else have thoughts on the media?

 

[milefile]

They plastered pictures of prisoners being interrogated, beaten and executed. I didn't know America did that.

 

[slip2rock]

There's been quite a few pictures of Iraqi's surrendering in the press over here.

So i guess it was only to be expected that Iraq would go one better.

I notice today that the pictures with POW's in them have the POW's faces blanked out.

But dead and wounded being paraded on TV, pretty sick really.

 

[Jordan]

I think the violations of the Geneva Convention deal with the treatment of the POW's, not the broadcasting of it (recording it on TV is proof of the mistreatment, however).

 

[vat_man]

I have major issues with the whole coverage - it's being presented as fact when in reality we're dealing with the military-edited highlights. I'm astounded reporters are permitted on actual fighting vehicles on front lines - it's amazing more aren't killed.

The fascination is like watching a car accident that takes about a month to happen...

 

[Cano]

This is media war people. and since its a USA war, USA want to show how its killing machine slaughters any and all stuff that gets in its way. yes, I know those were gross scenes, but it was just obvious that would happen. this war is a mediatic war, and everything and all will be brought to you live, so enjoy your living room couch and prepare po corn. I know it sounds crude, but that's the way it is. media is treating this war as a good, rating-god show, and its going to work for them because you want to be informed!! but from that to being morbous, just like what you mentioned, is another matter. sadly, these things will happen again and again, because once people know what happens, they want to see. and the dont want to see how missiles get launched from some ship, they want to see how they blow stuff. believe me, that is way sad, but I'd bet a million dollars that, when any TV station repetaed those scenes, the ratings broke the roof.

Cano

 

[rjensen11]

I think Freedom of the Press is too much now. Granted, nobody likes the press when all it is is governmental propganda(which much of it still is today), but when it ruins people's lives, like the Olypics in Atlanta and the one guy who saved countless lives from a bomb, or when it gives opposing forces the blueprints used for the upcoming war, it clearly has lost all sence of respect of privacy and common knowledge.