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Apr. 16th, 2004 09:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kascheHaving been outside the whole day, I heard the news only yesterday evening. The tv speaker first said that very few saw the execution's record, then - in the same sentence - he spoke about the "dramatic and barbaric execution". Now, tell me how you can say that. Aljazeera didn't transmit it. Only an handful of persons - thank God - saw it. Am I wrong to think that journalists shouldn't speak by hearsay, at least without specifying it, or is it just me being naive?
Anyway, I'm glad they chose not to spread the tape. I can only imagine what it would have been like, and I do remember how often they broadcast the record of when S. Francis' aisle collapsed, back in the 1996. This time there would have been enlargements, slow motions and all the like.
I know that the tendency to turn pain into a spectacle isn't the real point of the issue. Yet- I'm still not going to talk about all the question, I need to know more.
Anyway, I'm glad they chose not to spread the tape. I can only imagine what it would have been like, and I do remember how often they broadcast the record of when S. Francis' aisle collapsed, back in the 1996. This time there would have been enlargements, slow motions and all the like.
I know that the tendency to turn pain into a spectacle isn't the real point of the issue. Yet- I'm still not going to talk about all the question, I need to know more.
