I was watching TV this morning as I got ready to leave for work. On all three cable news stations they had the same thing. The BTK killer was describing in gruesome detail how he had systematically tortured and murdered his victims.
Am I the only one appalled that Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC chose to air this live and unedited?
I'm obviously not squeamish about this sort of thing, as showing images of our enemies murdering people in Iraq is kind of what made us famous, but there is something sick about seeing this on TV. At least my posts always warn the readers away from graphic images. And I do those posts as anti-terrorist propaganda.
What possible motivation could the news networks have other than a kind of sick voyeurism? Has American culture sunk so low that we now find the graphic details of murders to be acceptable content for the news?
Ok, no more posts from me today, I promise.
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I'm not sure how I feel about your above statement.
People that I know that have never seen a beheading video on the Internet believe that the beheading is done with a sword, with a swift chop. They have no clue it is often done with a smaller knife, using a sawing action.
Sometimes people need to see the 'underbelly' in order to see the brutality of people's actions. After all the above comparison belittles the suffering of the victim, but it's pretty much how it is potrayed to the populace via the MSM.
Posted by: dave at June 27, 2005 11:15 AM (fsJ2z)
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It only depends on who has been murdered and who did the murdering. If it's jihadis beheading innocents, that's not news. If it's terrorists slamming jets into buildings and watching people jumping into the abyss to escape the fire, that's not news.
But, hearing the gory details of brutal murders more than a decade ago? Now, that's a made for television movie, nonstop wall to wall coverage, and preemption of regular programming.
What a country! What a media.
Posted by: lawhawk at June 27, 2005 11:51 AM (AcoYr)
Posted by: Oyster at June 27, 2005 12:01 PM (fl6E1)
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BTK killer confesses to murders is news. The
details of those murders, is not."
[places hand over mouth, pretends to cough:]
BULL-shit! BULL-shit!
[stops coughing]
Rusty, if you had not received any significant gains in traffic after you first linked the Nick Berg video, would you have continued to post such things? Your warnings notwithstanding, you know perfectly well that high traffic counts with the torture/decapitation stuff is due precisely to some or other level of sick voyeurism (I plead 'occasionally guilty'). Those who don't want to see it don't click your links - those that do . . .
It seems to me you don't have a real strong leg to stand on here.
"Has American culture sunk so low that we now find the graphic details of murders to be acceptable content for the news?"
Aren't you an official Google News Source now?
Still love ya, though, mah brutha. Hope you don't mind my twistin' yer titties.
Posted by: ccwbass at June 27, 2005 01:14 PM (G0Gk2)
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ccwbass: Haven't you heard? Google prefers uruknet and jihad unspun over Rusty.
Posted by: Oyster at June 27, 2005 02:30 PM (fl6E1)
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" "It only depends on who has been murdered and who did the murdering. If it's jihadis beheading innocents, that's not news. If it's terrorists slamming jets into buildings and watching people jumping into the abyss to escape the fire, that's not news. "
That is the answer. Very well said.
Posted by: Rod Stanton at June 27, 2005 02:39 PM (Z6yVb)
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Is BTK a muslim by any chance?
No? Imagine my surprise!
Posted by: greg at June 27, 2005 03:52 PM (/+dAV)
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I can't really comment Greg, seeing that I must have missed the post that claimed Muslims are the only people in the world doing the murdering.
Posted by: dave at June 27, 2005 04:31 PM (fsJ2z)
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I didn't see it but I wish I had. I'm sure the channels that showed it thought it over and figured that it was important to let the info air and I don't hold anything against them for that. We all want to know how serial killers think and act and why plus what makes them do the things they do. I watched a special on Dalmer and he was very open about what he did and all he wanted to know was why - why was he that way - why was he not stopped sooner - why he wasn't caught earlier and went into detail of carrying around in his car one of his first victims in sections in a trash bag and how even when the police stopped him, they never even asked what was in the bags. Eventually he buried the parts in his grandmother's yard.
I think the news channels did the right thing and I wish I had seen it; I think it's important to find out what goes on in the brain of a seriel killer and how he felt towards his " projects."
Come on by my site sometime and say HI.
Cindy
Posted by: firstbrokenangel at June 27, 2005 05:53 PM (PEKrh)
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How many people has CHIMPY killed? 151 in Texas, 1700 other Americans and 9,000 Iraqis. BTK is small fry.
Posted by: BUSH LIES - SOLDIERS DIE at June 27, 2005 06:43 PM (FV4oJ)
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Greg is the only one who posts here that has a brain !!!!!! Holy shit you people are ignorant!!!!!
Posted by: Queen of Dissent at June 28, 2005 06:57 AM (qApFB)
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Sorry - BushLies - Soldiers Die has his/her head screwed on too - didn't see that one. Gotta get outta here!!!!! Hey Osama, wait for me man .........
Posted by: Queen of Dissent at June 28, 2005 06:59 AM (qApFB)
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>>>"Is BTK a muslim by any chance?"
No, he is a white male, and was thought to be a CHRISTIAN, which explains the extensive and detailed coverage his murders get. There's no danger of inflaming the mindless white masses in such cases. Must.... maintain.....ooooorrderrrr!!!!
Posted by: Carlos at June 28, 2005 09:06 AM (8e/V4)
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