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To: KLP who wrote (50608)	6/17/2004 6:21:27 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) of 793895

I think this is what several of us were trying to say a few weeks ago....there are separate wrongs, but by omitting others' wrongs, and only highlighting ours... I don't recall anyone offering a practical remedy. It's great to recognize the implications. It's understandable to complain about them. But, just as the reporting the US wrongs without reporting the horrors committed by others is problematic, so is complaining about it without acknowledging that there is really nothing to be done about it. What is to be done about it? Achieve balance by showing those videos on TV? Of course not. Even the reporters couldn't watch them. So the alternative is to not show the pictures of Lynndie England. And you're going to stop this how? Even if you got agreement among the major media to not show them, they'd be appearing on the internet and people would be complaining that news is being suppressed. This is a no-win. Damning the media over something that there is no practical way to fix is unfair and disingenuous, IMO. Complaining about the impact of the phenomenon is reasonable. Faulting those who have no feasible options is not. Unless someone has a practical remedy to offer, that is...

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