The Associated Press Has Gone To Far

[Karen]

How sad. That they are putting profits above simple human decency is not surprising, but it is sad that they didn't consider his parents' feelings. There have always been branches of the media that aim to profit from human suffering, the saying "If it bleeds, it leads" goes back before I was even born.

[blue]

Think of all the protestors that dont take the families feelings into consideration when they use the deaths of soldiers to further their goals. Cindy Sheehan, if she had stuck to her own son Ild have no problem. Michael Moore has capitalised on the deaths of soldiers, IMHO, in a way worse way then the AP did.

[RICHARD]

Devil's advocate?


Didn't we want to see coffins?


Why not move the timeline a little farther backwards and get the FULL STORY?


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I am being a smart arse here.

People asked for pictures of the coffins unloaded at Dover to be published by the media.

So all of a sudden we get effing 'religion' and don't want to see how the coffins are filled.

Aluminum caskets are way more palatable than the pics of a real person dying?

Remember the media paraded the clips of the woman killed after the Iranian elections?

It's quite all right for us to make martyrs of people we don't know, but a sin when it's our own blood?

I don't understand.

[RICHARD]

There are two ways to look at the clip-I have not seen it.

One is a way to rally the GOVERNMENT and to give the military the ways and means to end all the BS.

We bomb a town?

TFB. We drop pamphlets before hand and tell the people WE ARE THERE TO GET RID OF THE SLOBS THAT ARE MAKING YOUR LIVES MISERABLE. Help us, we'll help you.

Or?

Let's let this poor soldier's death be the rally cry for us to tuck tail and split.
End of story, let the locals take care of their own.


Then we can wait for the next 9/11

We just have to kick a little arse to show everyone that we don't care and will not take prisoners.

How many other countries run roughshod over the people that they get involved with?

We get the short end of the stick because we follow the rules.

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Hey! who remembers the pilots/crew of the Blackhawks shot down in Somalia that were stripped and dragged down the road and the private contractors that were killed and strung up on he bridge? I seem to remember there wasn't too much ado done for them.

I still do not understand.

[Medusa]

“conveys the grimness of war and the sacrifice of young men and women fighting it.” As if we need a reminder.

There were live reports from the battle fields of Viet Nam. We got to see wounded and dying soldiers then. We already know how grim war is. So this is just an excuse by the AP and a total lack of compassion for the soldier's family. That photo will be forever etched in their minds; not a way that I'd want to remember my son, hero or not. The action of the AP is unconscionable.

[moosmom]

they are putting profits above simple human decency

WELL SAID!!!!!!

AP should be ashamed of themselves!!

[RICHARD]

Rejoice! Glory is ours!
Our young men have not died in vain.
Their graves need no flowers
The tapes have recorded their names.
-elp