Wonder if US will be as keen to show video of dead innocents from their bombing Syria

[Triana]

. . . as they are to show emotionally manipulative gassing scenes.

Just asking.

[DCBob]

1. if done correctly there shouldnt be any or very few.

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since the targets are most likely military bases and airfields.

[Skittles]

2. graphic vidoeos are only used to PROMOTE MORE WAR

yup

[leveymg]

3. I seem to recall those who tried to cover the US invasion from the "wrong" angle got blown up or put

on the No-Fly List. The Embedded or Dead approach to war journalism



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[nadinbrzezinski]

4. That is one hell of a picture

[leveymg]

5. Remember the Jerusalem Hotel in Baghdad?

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Yup

[leveymg]

7. America really pushed its weight around a decade ago, didn't we?

Practically nobody in the press said an unkind word about that one. Wonder why?

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. In the US

Right now the press is as skeptical as I remember...it's partly that

[madrchsod]

9. obama has no control over the world press....

we saw these images during vietnam because we had a free press. today we will rely on the social media and other news outlets across the world for our free press.








http://academics.wellesley.edu/Polisci/wj/Vietnam/ThreeImages/brady2.html


are we obama`s walter cronkite?

[Triana]

10. If I remember correctly, the Pentagon censored photos of Iraq war dead from being shown in the media

..."prohibiting photographs of the coffins of U.S. troops returning home and refusing as a matter of policy to keep track of the number of Iraqis who have been killed."

So yes it (the U.S. gov't) darn well does have that power and could use it again.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/iraq-s-unseen-war-the-photos-washington-doesn-t-want-you-to-see-a-371411.html