SO TIRED OF NEWS MEDIA......

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Registered: 05-08-2004
SO TIRED OF NEWS MEDIA......
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Sat, 05-15-2004 - 12:23pm
IS ANYONE ELSE SO TIRED OF SEEING THAT POOR GUY(NICK BERG) RIGHT BEFORE HIS BEHEADING?

KNOWING WHAT HAPPENS TO HIM IT MAKES ME FURIOUS THE WAY THEY REPLAY IT OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN! THEY DO NOT JUST SHOW THE STILL PICTURE OF THE MURDERERS BEHIND HIM, NO THEY HAVE TO SHOW IT UP TO THE POINT WHERE THEY JUST START COMING AT HIM WITH THE KNIFE! WHY DO THEY BELEIVE WE WANT TO SEE THAT! I WILL NOT WATCH ANYMORE NEWS PROGRAMS THAT SHOW THAT, THEN I WILL EMAIL THEM AND TELL THEM!!!!!!!

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Registered: 09-30-2003
Sat, 05-15-2004 - 4:44pm
I know exactly how you feel. I hate to see that, but imagine how his family feels.


Shelby

SAHM to Haylei

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Registered: 10-23-2003
Wed, 05-19-2004 - 4:17pm
I think it is terrible they keep showing that. And very disrespectful to the victim and his family. Can you imagine his poor mother seeing that image over and over on TV? I am really beginning to hate - yes, HATE - the news media. They are all in it for ratings and money. I truly believe there is no ojective journalism out there - they are all ratings hounds and are very tasteless. I hate seeing that picture - it gives me chills. I've had nightmares and borderline panic attacks when I think about that news clip and that poor guy. I wish they would stop showing it. I don't want my children to see it either - although they are both too little, still, just the fact that they show things like that on TV makes me mad.

Beth

SAHM to Angelina (8/4/02) and Isabella (3/7/04)

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Registered: 03-25-2003
Sat, 05-22-2004 - 8:45pm

Please, contact the offending stations. It's the only way you can even remotely have an effect on what is being broadcast.


Well, that and just stop watching. And make sure the channels KNOW you've stopped watching, and why.


I don't even watch the news anymore, IMO it's all so sensationalized, it's useless. I get all my news from the BBC News homepage when I turn on my computer, and NPR when driving around.


So please, please, make your voice heard, maybe if enough of us do, we can change things!

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 06-17-2004 - 1:45pm
please don't throw tomatoes at me but I don't watch a lot of t.v,, who is this you are speaking of? and what did he do?
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Fri, 06-18-2004 - 12:33pm

Oh kim...we would just throw the small ones...lol! just kidding!


This was that poor guy who was captured in Iraq. He was kidnapped and his beheading was shown on a website. The news channels picked it up and were showing the horrible pictures all day long every day for two weeks! They would show it right up to the last second before he was killed, with the knife in the hands of his murderer and approaching him for the kill. It was so horrible! It made me take another posters advice and stop watching local news and get it from the internet.

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