Re: [[email protected]: [FAIR-L] Fox: Civilian Casualties Not News]

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> The host of Fox News Channel's "Special Report with Brit Hume" (11/5/01)
> recently wondered why journalists should bother covering civilian deaths at
> all. "The question I have," said Hume, "is civilian casualties are
> historically, by definition, a part of war, really.  Should they be as big
> news as they've been?"

By *definition*? Historically? I'm...appalled. I guess "total war" is a
much older concept than I thought.

Silly me.

Why report on raping and pillaging, then? Looting? Fragging officers?

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> Mara Liasson from National Public Radio was direct: "No. Look, war is about
> killing people. Civilian casualties are unavoidable." 

I guess there's No Such Thing As A War Criminal. Convenient.

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> news judgment on the part of some of these news organizations. Civilian
> casualties are not, as Mara says, news.  The fact is that they accompany
> wars."

What about combatent casualties?

Fucking PIGS!

Cheers,
Bijan.