CNN reporter "we won't show the gruesome footage of prison attack.

[Swede]

Do you agree with this editing of reality?

[Fleshdancer]

1. I think they probably should be shown, BUT

I wouldn't mind a courtesy warning before hand just in case I'm eating or if my 5yr old is in the room. :(

[neuvocat]

2. Its a double standard.

They showed all sorts images of torture and killing until they realized the U.S. is losing the war. Now that CNN knows how it can infuriate people here (including the arab and muslim communities), it decides not to.

[Fleshdancer]

4. good point.

The torture pics of the past as well as the death photos of Saddam's two sons were pretty damn gruesome.

[BOSSHOG]

3. Kind of a strange policy

Why just today they aired the gruesome footage of bush's press conference.

[Drum]

9. lol!

[tularetom]

5. No I don't nor do I understand

how they can report on * bullshit "news" conference without pointing out how much at odds his pollyannaish view of the Iraq clusterfuck is with the facts.

[kenny blankenship]

6. They don't have to put it in heavy rotation as part of the 30 min cycle

of headlines, but they shouldn't sit on footage or images or stories about significant events. Documentary material about Iraq is scarce enough as it is without whisking stuff down the memory hole because it's "too real" or "too jolting" or whatever.

[MadMaddie]

7. They need to show it....because Americans need to see the truth...

The BBC and other world organizations show the footage...

The media trying to shield Americans from the reality of war....is a travesty in itself..They are protecting Americans from gruesome footage.....our soldiers are right in the middle of this debacle and see it everyday.....Americans need to see what is happening to our troops!!

This is more of the * cabal wanting to distort and hide the truth!!

[sui generis]

8. not at all

what's happening in the real world does not need to be translated for us by someone with a questionable agenda, and any reporter working for the MSM by definition has a borrowed agenda.

One of the things that caused the revulsion with Vietnam was seeing our soldiers coming home in body bags, on the news. It was seeing people getting napalmed and all the real ugliness of war on the nightly news.

I don't think delicate sensibilities should keep the rest of us who choose to see the truth from seeing the truth. War is ugly and horrible and one of the worst aspects of humanity. We should know this from the earliest possible age to oldest age.

Skinner had a humorous slant on what you could do with a trillion dollars.

I have a less humorous slant - what can you do with a hundred thousand dead people? If one third of them were children, what would thirty thousand children lined up against a brick wall and shot look like? I'm sure there are graphic artists who could begin to give us an idea of the horror we have brought to Iraq for a pack of lies.

[valerief]

10. Hey, Janet Jackson's breast is dangerous.

Pretend slayings and decapitations are not.

Strange world.