Iraq: "I Think That The Networks... Don't Want To See Things Going Bang Anymore"

[RamboLiberal]

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Iraq: "I Think That The Networks... Don't Want To See Things Going Bang Anymore"
Yesterday on Reliable Sources, CBS correspondent Allen Pizzey said the networks are growing tired of the daily death toll coverage in Iraq:

PIZZEY: I don't think I personally get numbed by it. I think if I ever become numbed to this sort of thing and it all cease to be what I hope is a decent reporter, I think that the networks, they are fed up with the massive bombs. They don't want to see things going bang anymore.

What troubles me is that -- what troubles me most personally is when I see children hurt and those are the stories that you really want to get on the air and it really bothers me that we can't. We cannot get out there at the scene of these things, not because we want to see them, but because I think there is a deeply human story that needs to be told.

That's how people understand the horror of war, when they can relate it to something that they understand. And everybody understands their own children. So that bothers me. That bothers me psychologically, who knows.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0703/18/rs.01.html

KURTZ: Right. ENGEL: But we have an advantage in the sense that reporters can go in and leave. It is much more difficult for the soldiers, who are deployed there and have no choice, and for the Iraqis who don't have an option, even though many of them are leaving the country and becoming refugees.

KURTZ: No question about that.

Allen Pizzey in Baghdad, do you find that being there, when you're there, has a numbing effect? Are is this also just kind of reducing the appetite of the networks for more pictures of car bombings and suicide attacks?

PIZZEY: I don't think I personally get numbed by it. I think if I ever become numbed to this sort of thing and it all cease to be what I hope is a decent reporter, I think that the networks, they are fed up with the massive bombs. They don't want to see things going bang anymore. What troubles me is that - what troubles me most personally is when I see children hurt and those are the stories that you really want to get on the air and it really bothers me that we can't. We cannot get out there at the scene of these things, not because we want to see them, but because I think there is a deeply human story that needs to be told. That's how people understand the horror of war, when they can relate it to something that they understand. And everybody understands their own children. So that bothers me. That bothers me psychologically, who knows.

KURTZ: Barbara Starr about a half a minute, are news executives tired of this war after four years?

STARR: Oh, I think absolutely. I think every organization, the war is expensive to cover. It is dangerous as you see from my colleagues, but for reporters, I think we feel still as my colleague said, the death and destruction in Iraq and for myself, the most important story out there is that you have young soldiers, young people joining the military, wanting to serve their country and they die bleeding out in a back alley of Baghdad somewhere. That's a story that has to be told that none of us can get tired off.

[wake.up.america]

1. This war was wrong when it started. Some people, unfortunately are against the war...

because it is now 4 years. I was one of many who said at the outset the war was insanity.

[southerncrone]

2. Funny how the reporters think this type of media coverage should be show to the American people,

but the networks aren't showing it.
I remember as a teenager during Vietnam, EVERY NIGHT we would see the carnage on the nightly news.
That is why there was such an outcry from the people to stop Vietnam.

With the Iraq War, the Bushiviks won't even allow the caskets to be shown.
Reason being, they knew what a powerful, psychological impact it had during Vietnam.

I guarantee, if we had the same coverage of the war today as we did then, this war would have been stopped by now, because public outrage would have demanded it.

Instead we have Brittany Spears & K-Fed, Anna Nicole, American Idol, etc., these are not news items, merely entertainment.

Our newsmedia is a whore to corporate America & political agendas.

[butterfly77]

3. Richard engel said that..

a large number of his colleagues have had nervous breakdowns...

[Rex]

4. Reap what you sow assholes!

CNN was CREATED during/for Gulf War I. Foxnews was created to destroy Clinton. Fuck them all!

[deutsey]

5. Awww...is all that death and destruction interfering wif their widdle fantasy world?

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