Posted on 02/04/2015 8:40:03 PM PST by PROCON
Fox News took the controversial step yesterday of posting the 22-minute video from the Islamic State terror group that shows Jordanian pilot Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh being burned to death. To alert Internet users to what’s in the video, the presentation features these words: “WARNING, EXTREMELY GRAPHIC VIDEO”
Fox’s decision drew condemnation from terrorism experts consulted by The Guardian: “[Fox News] are literally – literally – working for al-Qaida and Isis’s media arm,” said Malcolm Nance of the Terror Asymmetrics Project on Strategy, Tactics and Radical Ideology. “They might as well start sending them royalty checks.” Twitter also fielded some negativity, for what that’s worth.
The network explained today why it posted the video. “After careful consideration, we decided that giving readers of FoxNews.com the option to see for themselves the barbarity of ISIS outweighed legitimate concerns about the graphic nature of the video,” said John Moody, who as Fox News’s executive vice president and executive editor has authority over the Web site. “Online users can choose to view or not view this disturbing content.”
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The other ABC channels forbid the public to view it because it might be "upsetting to some".
Screw 'em, I watched it, this just reinforces my belief that we better get serious with this ISIS threat before it comes here.
Bastards are savages!
I gotta agree, personally I’d have this running 24 / 7 on every Jumbotron in the Country.
Upsetting? Yeah, it’s upsetting and not to the right people either...
I forced myself to watch it for the same reason. Truly sickening ... I would be happy to enthusiastically support any and all military actions against these ISIS/ISIL bastards.
“....get serious with this ISIS threat before it comes here.”
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They’re here.
It’s all part of the hope and change promise that Obama made and kept.
I also support them showing this horrible stuff. People need to see it to get it. It may desensitize some, but most are going to see these guys as a true enemy of humanity. islam already did it to us on 9/11 times 3000, but they censored the footage as much as possible there too.
The Guardian is a leftist rag. If they are criticizing something, chances are good it’s something good.
Sorry just like the beheading videos this needs to be available to all who can stomach it. You cant just tell some of these clowns out there these people are animals, you have to show it to them.
Malcolm Nance has it 180 degrees wrong.
no I think it should not be shown because the demons that did it get satisfaction every time it runs.
If the American people don’t grow up someone is going to walk in and take over.
true words well said
Bingo.
But...but...but...aren’t Fox worried about causing an Islamophobic backlash? /sarc
I watched it, doing so makes me more committed to begging our government to turn the sand where ISIS is into glass.
This video should reinforce to every American that we better get our sh!t in order or we're next.
We need new leadership, or America will not survive!
The taliban ARE in the White House.
The enemy is in the control center.............
I watched it.
I don’t have any words to describe what I saw.
I watched it because I am aware that certain quarters in my country did not want me to see it, so I saw it in defiance of these fools.
Evil lives in men, this much I know.
But so does good, and if good men do nothing, evil is going to win.
Part of the problem we face is the ignorance and outright denial of the magnitude of evil we face in ISIS and jihad in general. The media has not had the stomach to show the true nature of the danger. Jesus, not Islam, tells us that the truth will set us free.
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