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[Robert L. Harris]

Sensationalism sells


Thus spake Christopher Fowler (cfowler at outpostsentinel.com):

> On this stuff,  I do not want to start a topic war but IMO I'm seeing
> the US media do stuff that they would not have done during WWII.  
> I understand that there were some bad apples in Iraq that might had
> tortured prisoners but it appears the media is starting to run it into
> the ground.  I have no idea why they would want to do this to their own
> nation.
>  
> On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 01:08, F. Grant Robertson wrote:
> > This reminds me of what my finacee refers to as the "Radiohead rule of
> > acceptable content"
> > 
> > Radiohead had a video, and I forget for what song, that featured nudity
> > and violence. They ended up making three different verisons, one for the
> > US, one for Canada and one for Europe as a whole.  
> > 
> > The US version left in the violence, and removed the nudity
> > 
> > The Candian version removed the violence, and left the nudity alone
> > 
> > The European version ran unedited. 
> > 
> > Why we remain so uptight about sex but so comfortable with violence just
> > makes no sense to me. As Greg Proops once said, when asked by a brit why
> > we Americans are so uptight.. "Thanks for sending us over your best and
> > brightest to kick off the party!"
> > 
> > -G
> > 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On 
> > > Behalf Of Sean Kilpatrick
> > > I am far more worried
> > > about "first-person shooter" video games. To me the
> > > images of blood, guts, and gore being splattered across
> > > the screen are far more pornographic than pix of men
> > > and women doing what comes naturally. 
> > 
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Robert L. Harris                     | GPG Key ID: E344DA3B
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