so they probably shot kids is my guess :elmofire:

  • heihachi [any]
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    2 years ago

    what possible good can come from photos or video of the crime scene being shown in the press? it's voyeurism.

    • blobjim [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Better than most of the stuff our media shows. At least it helps people empathize more. We often don't get to see anything from these situations, they're extremely sanitized. Just like we don't usually see people getting shot and bombed in US wars. We barely got a glimpse inside the rooms in the COVID wards where a million Americans just died. I feel like almost everything from our national propaganda outlets is so disconnected from the world to the point that most Americans can't even point to the places talked about in media on a map. Lots of people in this country couldn't point to Ukraine on a map. Or any country the US bombs. It's obviously not voyeurism to depict US war crimes. I don't think it's that much of a different situation to show inside a classroom where people died. If anything (and even NPR had someone on to say this), we should actually see pictures of crime scene with the dead bodies still there. Hearing talking heads blabber about things is far too abstract and it's easier to control narratives that way.

      • heihachi [any]
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        2 years ago

        who the fuck is not empathising in this situation? it's absolutely ghoulish to show the physical aftermath of the mass murder of children on the news.

        • blobjim [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          What makes it "ghoulish" other than some weird lib civility "reverence" yadda ydda yadda stuff. We're generally extremely uninformed and out of touch as Americans because things are censored, not because they show too much. And in the other direction, it's easier to play things up and lie about them when they're not actually shown. Like rhetoric about homeless people or violent crime or whatever. All we see of homeless people on TV is their tents. They won't even interview homeless people and play their voices on TV.

          • heihachi [any]
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            2 years ago

            "if you don't want to see the blood splatter of children on the walls you're a lib" Is a take I've never seen before

            it gains nothing and is disgusting and disrespectful to make media content of something like that

            lies are going to be told either way and your seeing the crime scene in the news will have no bearing on how they're received