Local ABC News Pre-empted the Iraq Horror Segment!

[leftchick]

I live in NC and I usually flip between ABC and CBS and our local ABC channel had None of the Fallujah Horror of Today on. It just kept running commercials for several minutes while CBS ran their segment showing the "blurred" bodies on Camera. I go back to ABC and it is back on with a segment on the BlackWater Employees protecting bremer. I have never seen that sort of news blackout before! Coincidence?

[mmonk]

1. We live in a society where info is sanitized

for the public. It's part of the new America. It's about controlling information and images.

[Bozita]

2. Nightline is about the Falluja horror -- Will they pre-empt it?

[alcuno]

3. I think that there is a reason ABC did that. They had very graphic

video showing charred bodies hanging from a bridge while people were cheering. I also flipped back and forth to CBS and NBC. The coverage was very different and since the people who were dismembered, lit on fire, hanged, and dragged through the streets were probably from N.C., it's understandable.

[Mari333]

4. Gee, we wouldnt want to bother the sensibilities of the majority

of the US public that supported the invasion of Iraq that killed over 20,000 Iraqis and over 600 soldiers, and wounded over 18,000 of them now would we with that footage?
In the meantime, they can watch COPS and sit around scratching their bellies and belching and rah rah rahing the war they defend, whilst our kids are being blown up.
Babs Bush "I dont want to bother my beautiful mind with such things" when asked why she didnt like the coverage of wounded and dead soldiers on the ground during the Gulf War.
http://www.bringthemhomenow.com

[alcuno]

5. It was ABC News in North Carolina.

I agree that people need to see the horror, but it's likely that the families hadn't even been notified yet. I believe that a news director could be considered irresponsible to show that video and have a family member see it and say, "Gee, isn't that my Henry on the ground, bleeding from the head with his feet on fire?"