August 20, 2003
Weapons of the Feeble
Matthew Rothschild
The Progressive Magazine
CNN was on when we were having our weekly staff lunch Tuesday. It was not a good choice.
While we were eating, we saw the carnage from the terrorist attack on the U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, and we heard the tragic news that the head of the U.N. mission there had been killed.
As if that weren't gory and ghoulish enough, the CNN anchor told us that another terrorist bombing had just taken place in Jerusalem. Sure enough, within minutes we were shown some of the most gruesome images I've seen since September 11. And whoever was producing CNN yesterday went way overboard by airing a picture of a horrifically bloodied child at least 11 times within a five-minute span, by my informal count.
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