puditman says:
Last night, CNN's Anderson Cooper gave a warning to viewers before airing a piece that showed the bloody corpse of Mullah Dadullah, the one-legged Taliban leader killed last Saturday in Afghanistan's Helmand province by British and Afghan troops and U.S. Special Forces. He then added, "But you might find it welcome."
Rather than simply reporting the facts, the job of the modern reporter apparently includes the inference that it is all well and good to celebrate the killings of enemies, especially mass murderers like Dadullah (while you are at it, you may want to raise a further toast to the empire's latest conquest, Iraq, where we have a excess of desired killings to report).
The camera then shifted to the bloodied corpse, with an explanation of how another evil-doer was killed.
Dadullah, it is rumoured, was reportedly sent to South Waziristan by Taliban leader Mullah Omar, in the summer of 2006, to convince local Pashtun insurgents to agree to a truce with Pakistan.
Assadullah Khalid, the governor of Kandahar province, put the body of Dadullah on display at his official residence. CBC reports a Canadian Forces official as saying that Dadullah's death is "great news."
Each time another big wig terrorist is killed, the media pretend (if only for one 24- hour news cycle) like it's the death of Mussolini or Hitler (surely, victory and peace are right around the corner, no?).
Why is each such report "great news" when anyone with an attention span longer than last week knows that insurgent-leading replacements are lined up from (wherever) to Mecca?
Could it be that endless war equals endless "welcome" moments?
I am thinking too much...please pass the koolaid.
Last night, CNN's Anderson Cooper gave a warning to viewers before airing a piece that showed the bloody corpse of Mullah Dadullah, the one-legged Taliban leader killed last Saturday in Afghanistan's Helmand province by British and Afghan troops and U.S. Special Forces. He then added, "But you might find it welcome."
Rather than simply reporting the facts, the job of the modern reporter apparently includes the inference that it is all well and good to celebrate the killings of enemies, especially mass murderers like Dadullah (while you are at it, you may want to raise a further toast to the empire's latest conquest, Iraq, where we have a excess of desired killings to report).
The camera then shifted to the bloodied corpse, with an explanation of how another evil-doer was killed.
Dadullah, it is rumoured, was reportedly sent to South Waziristan by Taliban leader Mullah Omar, in the summer of 2006, to convince local Pashtun insurgents to agree to a truce with Pakistan.
Assadullah Khalid, the governor of Kandahar province, put the body of Dadullah on display at his official residence. CBC reports a Canadian Forces official as saying that Dadullah's death is "great news."
Each time another big wig terrorist is killed, the media pretend (if only for one 24- hour news cycle) like it's the death of Mussolini or Hitler (surely, victory and peace are right around the corner, no?).
Why is each such report "great news" when anyone with an attention span longer than last week knows that insurgent-leading replacements are lined up from (wherever) to Mecca?
Could it be that endless war equals endless "welcome" moments?
I am thinking too much...please pass the koolaid.
