From
Robert-Fisk.com
WHY AREN'T AMERICANS
SEEING THESE CHILDREN
ON TELEVISION
EVERY SINGLE NIGHT?
Crossposted at MLW
I know. I know. There's no money in it. Ratings would plummet, right?
Can't be showing THIS shit on the news every night.
People might start to mutter.
Or worse.
Let me tell you something: You know all that grudging respect I summon whenever a high-profile newsperson takes the radical step of telling the truth, or of questioning authority?
It's gone. I haven't an iota of respect for any newsperson who doesn't start every goddamned evening off with a montage of the children killed or mutilated in Iraq that week...
and I'm SORRY, but I have to include you in here, Mr. Olbermann, as much as I adore the work you do.
You are the MEDIA. You took the goddamned JOB, now fucking DO it.
SHOW IT. Goddamn you sonofabitches, it will NEVER STOP until you start SHOWING IT. And yeah, maybe showing it won't make it stop... and then again, maybe it motherfucking WILL, you cowards.
LOOK at those children. Can't you see your own child there? I know I do.
My god. My GOD.
RECOMMEND IT.
They can keep it off the airwaves, but they can't keep it off the screens.