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May 11, 2004 Show and Tell (Warning: Graphic Pictures)  Andrew Sullivan is right... The mainstream media is driving me bonkers. They keep referring to an al Qaeda website that carries the video of the beheading of Nick Berg. But they won't tell us the name of the website! Not only will they not show what al Qaeda really is, they won't even allow us to know how to find it. [...] We can get around the Washington Post, which has a "slideshow" of American abuse but won't even provide a link to the horrors perpetrated by the enemy.It's a funny time to start being concerned about offending our sensibilities. If the pictures of abuse at Abu Ghraib were legitimate news, then so is the death of Nick Berg. And Daniel Pearle. I had to stop and think before writing that. I don't want to say "let us see it" simply out of morbid, prurient interest, and sometimes, the media does have to make a judgement call on matters of taste. But the media has already made that judgement call in recent days. The bar has been set. Let us see the pictures. UPDATE: See the pictures, below the fold. Be warned...it is graphic.    
UPDATE III: I've noticed a great many inflammatory statements being made in the comment section. I'm not interested in policing old threads, so allow me to say that we take no responsibility for commenters. Their views do not necessarily reflect our own. I'd also ask people to tone down the rhetoric. The death of Nick Berg is not a good excuse to vent your spleen half-cocked. In short, don't be a jerk. |