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The Complete and Utter Evil of Self Censorship

December 19th 2007 04:04
Dead Child Carried by Soldier
If This Doesn't Bring a Tear to Your Eye I Don't Know What Will
People like to imagine we have a free press however when reality is hidden we don't. Sure we have facts, we have 'a suicide bomber killed a hundred people today' but we don't have the reality. We don't see what the destruction said suicide bomber caused, only read or hear about what he's done.


This is the inherint problem in the media, for the sake of decency they purpously do not show the violent graphics that come out of war. It's dangerous territory, people will complain their kids saw it, or complain they don't need to see the pure unadulterated gore. Yet when your country is at war, should you have a right to close your eyes? The war is real, people are really dying and losing their homes, and those who may unwittingly be the cause of this death and destruction are hiding from the reality of the war in this manner.

Dad Carries Dead Daughter
If our country is at war we should see what that war is causing, or perhaps we should be made to look at it. What of our childrens conscience if they see something disturbing on TV? Nothing of it, they should see it too, if you are too afraid they will come across some horrifying picture of a maimed infant then you should know better than letting him or her watch TV. More to the point however you should feel for the parents of that maimed infant. There's a real story behind the baby, a real story behind the parents, and it is not a happy story.


There is no justification for it, when we delibrately hide the reality of war we commit a great evil. Aren't we all in this war together? We ignore the terrors our troops and the people of the country are going through while at the same time we end up with the guts to say 'well people die in war'.

But that's just fact, not reality.
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