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Archae

(46,292 posts) Tue Apr 16, 2013, 12:14 AM Apr 2013

Why did Faux "news" HAVE to show that guy in the wheelchair with his feet blown off?

Bunch of sick bastards!

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Why did Faux "news" HAVE to show that guy in the wheelchair with his feet blown off? (Original Post) Archae Apr 2013 OP

why did you HAVE to tell us about it Skittles Apr 2013 #1

It's news. Bucky Apr 2013 #2

Faux News has no shame. None n/t npk Apr 2013 #3

why are you starting a thread on it ? JI7 Apr 2013 #4

Why? Are you offended that mercymechap Apr 2013 #5

To bitch about Faux "news" being the sewer it is. Archae Apr 2013 #6

why watch it? Skittles Apr 2013 #8

but this isn't nearly the worst of what they have done JI7 Apr 2013 #9

Same reaasaon NBC did (I've seen it, but haven't watched any FOX) cthulu2016 Apr 2013 #7

I had been flipping through the channels... Archae Apr 2013 #10

ABC news showed the victim from the waist up. Archae Apr 2013 #11

But don't dare show those 20 dead kids from Sandy Hook malaise Apr 2013 #12

You should seen the raw unedited video... pinebox Apr 2013 #13

What "news" media was this? Archae Apr 2013 #14

At this sad time I welcome you pinebox to DU! hrmjustin Apr 2013 #16

I remember as a teenager they showed a reporter being executed. The cameraman caught it on mucifer Apr 2013 #15

First pic I saw of it was here. cherokeeprogressive Apr 2013 #17

Skittles

(153,103 posts)

1. why did you HAVE to tell us about it

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Tue Apr 16, 2013, 12:15 AM

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Bucky

(53,928 posts)

2. It's news.

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Tue Apr 16, 2013, 12:17 AM

Apr 2013

I'm not sure of your point. You want the news sanitized more than it is already?

npk

(3,660 posts)

3. Faux News has no shame. None n/t

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Tue Apr 16, 2013, 12:17 AM

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JI7

(89,235 posts)

4. why are you starting a thread on it ?

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Tue Apr 16, 2013, 12:19 AM

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mercymechap

(579 posts)

5. Why? Are you offended that

Reply to JI7 (Reply #4)

Tue Apr 16, 2013, 12:21 AM

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Faux News is shown for the sleazy scoundrels that they are? We don't have to see a picture of someone's legs being blown off to believe that is what has happened. It's gory and not necessary.

Archae

(46,292 posts)

6. To bitch about Faux "news" being the sewer it is.

Reply to JI7 (Reply #4)

Tue Apr 16, 2013, 12:21 AM

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Skittles

(153,103 posts)

8. why watch it?

Reply to Archae (Reply #6)

Tue Apr 16, 2013, 12:38 AM

Apr 2013

seriously - turn that garbage OFF

JI7

(89,235 posts)

9. but this isn't nearly the worst of what they have done

Reply to Archae (Reply #6)

Tue Apr 16, 2013, 12:44 AM

Apr 2013

it's part of the news of what is going on.

cthulu2016

(10,960 posts)

7. Same reaasaon NBC did (I've seen it, but haven't watched any FOX)

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Tue Apr 16, 2013, 12:37 AM

Apr 2013

Archae

(46,292 posts)

10. I had been flipping through the channels...

Reply to cthulu2016 (Reply #7)

Tue Apr 16, 2013, 01:00 AM

Apr 2013

Looking for some news that wasn't about the bombing.

Was on Faux for maybe 10 seconds, and there was the picture.
That poor guy!

Some people have compared Faux "news" to the supermarket tabloids.
That's not fair.
Even the supermarket tabloids have standards that Faux never has, never will have.

Archae

(46,292 posts)

11. ABC news showed the victim from the waist up.

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Tue Apr 16, 2013, 07:19 AM

Apr 2013

Speaks volumes about Faux "news."

malaise

(268,583 posts)

12. But don't dare show those 20 dead kids from Sandy Hook

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Tue Apr 16, 2013, 07:21 AM

Apr 2013

All politics all the time.

pinebox

(5,761 posts)

13. You should seen the raw unedited video...

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Tue Apr 16, 2013, 07:22 AM

Apr 2013

When it first happened I was watching Shep as I like him (and that is about ALL who I can listen to on FOX) when it first happened. They cut to raw unedited video and wow.....just yeah, people missing leg and limb, blood everywhere. Pretty horrific.

Archae

(46,292 posts)

14. What "news" media was this?

Reply to pinebox (Reply #13)

Tue Apr 16, 2013, 07:25 AM

Apr 2013

Faux?

hrmjustin

(71,265 posts)

16. At this sad time I welcome you pinebox to DU!

Reply to pinebox (Reply #13)

Tue Apr 16, 2013, 10:12 AM

Apr 2013

mucifer

(23,461 posts)

15. I remember as a teenager they showed a reporter being executed. The cameraman caught it on

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Tue Apr 16, 2013, 07:29 AM

Apr 2013

tape and ran. It was in a foreign country.

I have mixed feelings about showing these images vs sanitizing things so that we all believe the world is as we see it in the movies.

The images from the VietNam war might have helped end it sooner. We don't get so many war images on tv now.

cherokeeprogressive

(24,853 posts)

17. First pic I saw of it was here.

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Tue Apr 16, 2013, 10:14 AM

Apr 2013

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