The international media is asking an interesting question - how are the networks planning to handle video of Saddam Hussein's impending execution, assuming it happens?
Think about it. Of course the MSM (Mainstream Media) networks will show all the moments leading up to death (Saddam alone in his cell, praying with a Koran, handcuffed, walk to the gallows, hooded) … but they will all go through the motions of not airing the actual moment of execution. Probably keep the audio while they fade to black. Whoomppphhh!! Aghhhh….
Of course Al Jazeera will air the execution in it’s entirety to it’s 1 billion viewers, and then the MSM conglomerates will go on a rampage about how Al Jazeera “provokes” Muslims. Naturally the few NeoCons that remain in the Pentagon will arrange some celebrating Arabs or tearful Khurds video footage to flash to while Wolf Blitzer compares Saddam to Hitler.
If none of the MSM networks air the execution, video of Saddam’s dangling at the end of a rope, will end up on You Tube anyway.
Why Now?
Hanging Saddam now, on international television, in front of perhaps 1 billion Muslims and 2 billion Christians, as the world teeters on global religious war - is an act of an anti-Christ.
Who else wants war that badly?
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7 comments:
I don't think there'll even be an Al Jazeera coverage. Imho, the Iraqi "government" will execute him behind the covers, and we'll just get a press release (probably tomorrow afternoon, local time) stating that the execution was carried out.
There are still too many supporters of Saddam in Iraq, I doubt they'd risk such a provocative footage.
Nick, you make perfect sense.
Unfortunately, nothing about this fiasco has ever made sense.
They say intelligence is pattern recognition. What has been the pattern of all policy decisions regarding Iraq? - They all lead to chaos.
Chaos is the goal of the policy makers.
3,000 dead American soldiers
0 WMD's
In this day and age, everything is videotaped. The only question is how will the video be distributed?
looks like nick was right. they did him in the dark.
:her soledad: said...
looks like nick was right. they did him in the dark.
Give it 48 hours.
Hell, give it 4 hours:
NYTIMES
December 30, 2006
How Much Should Be Shown of a Hanging? Network Executives Wonder and Wait
By BILL CARTER
In the hours before the hanging of Saddam Hussein television news executives were thrown into hurried consultations yesterday over how to handle any images of his execution that might be released.
Though there was some question as to whether any video images would be issued any time soon, the network news divisions at ABC and CBS said that should the video become available, some visual documentation of Mr. Hussein’s death might be broadcast, but no overly graphic images, and certainly not the complete execution.
NBC News, however, indicated it might go further than its competitors. Steve Capus, the president of NBC News, said the network might show “a wide shot of Saddam hanging.” He said NBC would make its decision based on questions of taste and history.
“I think it might be appropriate at some point to see an image of Saddam after he is hanged,” Mr. Capus said, citing previous historic images of dictators who had been killed. “I think about that iconic image of Nicolae Ceausescu in Romania, lying literally in the gutter. I want to do this with a measure of taste, but I don’t want to stand in the way of history.”
The cable channels CNN and Fox News were less definitive about what limits they might impose on any images of Mr. Hussein dead, saying they would decide what to display after they saw what was available. (MSNBC, the cable channel owned by NBC, will follow the policies of NBC News.)
yuck to all of them. thank god we still live in a country where its citizens don't have to watch what is being shown - at least not this week. It may show up on senior exit exams in the next 10 years though.
shame on it all.
"It may show up on senior exit exams in the next 10 years though."
Wow.
Hadn't thought about that aspect of the propaganda campaign. They are probably printing 8th grade History Books as we speak - Spreading democracy in the middle east.
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