Networks won't retreat from graphic coverage

Hollywood Reporter ^ | Sep 1, 2005 | Paul J. Gough

[mdittmar]

Let's see what they show on the anniversary of 9/11,they seemed to have no problem retreating from graphic coverage when we were attacked.

[Texas_Jarhead]

How is the graphic results of a hurricane different from the graphic results of a terrorist attack? [rhetorical of course]

[Cindy]

Graphic coverage - ok - that is reality.
Slanted coverage - that's not ok - and that is a fact.

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http://www.truthusa.com/911news.html

[gondramB]

"Graphic coverage - ok - that is reality.
Slanted coverage - that's not ok - and that is a fact. "

That is it exactly, Cindy. There is no reason to conceal the truth but there is reason to not exaggerate or put a political spin on the story.

[T Lady]

'"We're not shying away from it," ABC News senior vp Paul Slavin said. "I just don't think we've seen that much." He said that ABC News was being guided, among other things, by issues of taste.'

...And by their lust for ratings and hatred for President Bush.

[Enchante]

They only want graphic images that they can use against Bush.... graphic images of 9/11 would remind people of why we need to fight and not surrender.... graphic images of victims of Katrina can be used to smear the administration (notice there's barely been a whisper in any media source I have seen of the failures in primary responsibility of the DEMOCRATIC local and state officials).

[ladiesview61]

The graphic pictures are supposed to say "see these dead people?...it's George Bush's fault because he is a murderer who doesn't care about black people"...

[FlingWingFlyer]

I've stopped watching it. I've been about as impressed as I'm gonna get for this "crisis." FOX News Channel has lost it and is out of control. That leaves me without a reliable news source other than Free Republic. Thank God for NASCAR, Diamondback baseball and football. Should have a pretty good, racism-free holiday weekend. All the Commie Bush-bashing has really wore me out.

[stlnative]

what pains me most is there are STILL elderly people waiting - fox has this on live (cameras skimming over the people who are still behind - many elderly are still left)

I saw a very large group of Vietnamese that refused to go in front of others - they are stepping back to let Americans go first! (it brings me to tears)

[nairBResal]

9/11 pictures ENFORCE Bush.
Katrina pictures have the opposite effect.

MSM job is to weaken Bush.

[heartwood]

Those Vietnamese probably are Americans. But bless them for letting those more in need go first.

[OldFriend]

And I won't forget that the looting marauding began after the storm had passed but BEFORE the flooding.

This had nothing to do with needing food, it was all about EVIL.

[Nathan Zachary]

"Alison Stewart that there were dead bodies everywhere, including two babies who had died of dehydration.Shepard Smith stood on Interstate 10 amid the devastation and, in one shot, showed the covered body of a man who was dead alongside the highway.

Maybe they should show those images next to this one:

And ask why people die along a highway because Nagin said they had no toilets on them, instead of tossing a pail on a bus and telling people to hit the road.

[JoJo Gunn]

Are they hiding tapes of the rape gangs?

[lawdude]

"You're a hard man, Conager." "Its a hard land!" Wasn't that the line?

[gondramB]

I'm not sure if they have citizenship yet or not but I think I remember Vietnamese fleeing the communists in a boatlift being relocated to Louisiana so they could fish.

They are sitting neatly in rows chatting with each other and waiting for everyone else to go first "so we don't get in the way."

Not only does it speak well of them it shows that being in America has great value and that they appreciate it even after a hurricane. It's a shame some of our native sons don't have that same appreciation.

[JoJo Gunn]

Nagin worried about those buses not being a Greyhound or Trailways, and what did he get? Thousands upon thousands upon thousands wading in sewage.

[aspiring.hillbilly]

Check this out for graphic:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/randall-robinson/new-orleans_b_6643.html

[SactoTomato]

The networks are engaging in pure Bush bashing. Let 'em squeal. With each report their credibility erodes further which, in turn, strengthens the conservative vision.

Caitlin