May 07, 2004
More on Agenda. (Moron Agenda?)
Just a month ago, television news networks agonized about how much they should show of the butchery of Americans in Fallujah. They opted for very, very little.
Within 48 hours of the 9/11 attacks, the major news networks and leading newspapers were settling on a policy to stop showing images of victims leaping to their death from the World Trade Center. NBC ran one clip of a man plunging to his death, and then admitted it was a mistake. An NBC News v.p. told the New York Times, "Once it was on, we decided not to use it again. It's stunning photography, I understand that, but we felt the image was disturbing."
In fact, post-9/11 coverage illuminates an interesting cultural cleavage in the media. When shocking images might stir Americans to favor war, the Serious Journalists show great restraint. When those images have the opposite effect, the Ted Koppels let it fly.
In 2002, Salon.com — the left-wing web magazine — ran a finger-wagging story full of condescending quotes and observations about how America was too obsessed with 9/11. The author, Michelle Goldberg (no relation), wrote that the appetite for documentaries about the attacks "suggests a voyeuristic impulse cloaked in patriotic piety."
Maybe what stoked America's appetite wasn't pious voyeurism but the decision of the networks to withhold the footage in the first place?
Regardless, now Salon asks another question. The lead story by Eric Boehlert on May 6 asks: "The media are finally showing the war in its full horror. What took them so long?"
Posted by Karol at May 7, 2004 12:57 PM | TrackBackTechnorati Tags:
I haven't seen the mainstream media show any of this war in its full horror. I don't know what Jonah is talking about. The images we see are completely sanitized. I don't think I have seen blood in Iraq once on TV. If Koppel wanted to dissuade Americans from war he would show images of dead bloody civilians, women and children blown up by our weapons. I see the opposite happening.
If the media has an agenda it's that they don't want to show the horrors of war, they don't want us to see US weapons blowing civilians to bloody bits. They don't want us to see killed and wounded US soldiers.
I don't think there was an agenda over 9/11 images. The media just didn't think the viewers would want to stomach seeing those images and I agree.
During the conflict in the Balkans the media often showed the horrors of war. Bosnians who ventured out to get water at the city well, getting mortored by the Serbs, ect. The agenda back then was to get Americans outraged, so we would intervene.
Posted by: PAUL at May 7, 2004 01:42 PMPaul, so on one hand, the media gets to decide for us what we want to stomach, on the other, they forcefeed us images they want us to see. What agenda?
Posted by: Karol at May 7, 2004 01:46 PMI said their was a political agenda in Iraq and in Bosnia.
9/11 I think decision not to show images was not political but social.
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