Farking bastards.

Hey, it's interesting when people die. And it generates cash flow.

Oh no, they miscategorized it! They are bad!

They are bad for different reasons, not this.

I think the website needs an update. The Return of the Conservatives was being headed by JarJar.

Meh. These videos have been floating around on YouTube, etc., for at least a couple of years. If anything, CNN is guilty of being hugely behind the news.

Heaven forbid anyone see what we're up against.

Hmm, let's see.
The guy wants advertisers to only advertise on a news program only if there are no "offensive" (to him) news items on that particular day?
Yea, good luck with that.

Sorry, I'm missing the part about how I should be outraged about this...

Looks like a blogger with delusions of self-importance (shocking, I know) to me.

Action Replay Nick: Heaven forbid anyone see what we're up against.

No problem there.

However, since when has it been policy to sponsor an enemies propaganda?

Faking bastards.

Dancin_In_Anson
However, since when has it been policy to sponsor an enemies propaganda?

I suspect you're being deliberately obtuse and just need a fix of "RAGABABABAHHH LIBERAL MEDIA" bashing. The snipers in Iraq are not getting any of the proceeds. This is simply how commercial television works.

Action Replay Nick: I suspect you're being deliberately obtuse

No, I asked a simple farking question.

Can you answer it?

The answer is, as far as I can tell, since forever. Fox News shows terrorist videos. In fact, I'm resonably sure I even saw the "Kim Jong Il is glorious etc" video on Fox. And when they play the videos, someone is sponsoring the segment.

I, too, am disgusted.

I am disgusted that this wasn't broadcast on CNN three farking years ago. Instead, we were force-fed shiat in a candy coated shell. Know thy enemy, biatches.

Action Replay Nick: I suspect you're being deliberately obtuse and just need a fix of "RAGABABABAHHH LIBERAL MEDIA" bashing

NOOOOOOOOOO.

say it aint so.

It's pretty funny, the comments on that page. If this catches on among the idiot brigade and CNN ends up pulling the video, I'll get yet another good laugh at how stupid people can be.

Action Replay Nick: The answer is, as far as I can tell, since forever.

So it's been policy to just broadcast it as is sans commentary?

Bullshiat.

dj4aces: I am disgusted that this wasn't broadcast on CNN three farking years ago. Instead, we were force-fed shiat in a candy coated shell. Know thy enemy, biatches.


That's right. Know thy enemy. It's like when the US showed footage of Tarawa. The public was horrified. Yet it showed from an American prospective of what we were up against...with American commentary. And any time propaganda from an enemy was shown, the same was done.

This isn't "conservative" or "liberal".

Dancin_In_Anson
So it's been policy to just broadcast it as is sans commentary?

Why do you need commentary? Without rabidly pro-American commentary, you will change your mind take the side of the Iraqi snipers?

Have you seen the segment? What commentary should it have?

yah, my dad told me when i turned on his 'radio on demand' and requested the Guadalcanal audio, he didn't have the option of turning off the american commentary.

if that hadn't been the case, he'd have bombed pearl harbor again. just on principle.

The only complaint here then is that CNN is not a big enough propaganda outlet for the American government.

Well, glad that's settled.

As far as showing "enemy propaganda" on US television goes...

I don't think it has any effect on US audiences outside of the morbid curiosity factor...It wasn't produced for US civilians...the message is target to a middle eastern audience and meant to garner support from those who already have a negative opinion of the US. Individuals in the US are unlikely to change their stance on the war in Iraq based on seeing this.

Even if it was produced for US audiences, I still doubt it would have the desired effect. Considering the massive amounts of information we're exposed to on an daily basis, these images just get lost in the clutter.

I've seen a few of these videos, and, honestly, from a marketing and advertising perspective (which is what propaganda is basically), the're piss poor, and again, aside from the morbid curiosity they may produce here in the US, no one's going to change their mind.

I guess you could get outraged that it was labeled as "Family" programming, but that was most likely a mistake and not diliberate.

In short, seems to me this blogger is making mountains out of molehills...

Wait, it says in the screen cap that "CNN's Michael Ware reports."

So, Dancin_In_Anson what does Michael Ware say in the report?

Action Replay Nick: So, Dancin_In_Anson what does Michael Ware say in the report?

allahu ackbar, biatches!

One question: Did the guy actually watch the video? Or is he just another knee-jerk neo-con witch-hunter?

Action Replay Nick: Without rabidly pro-American commentary, you will change your mind take the side of the Iraqi snipers?

i thought that was true of all militant right wing asshats? if someone doesn't constantly tell them who to channel their rage against they go blowing up federal buildings.

First, CNN is not a voicebox of the American government. If that is what you want go check out Fox News, they will be able to oblige.

Second, CNN does not broadcast exclusively to an American audience. Consequently their stories will not always be geared towards an American audience.

Third, because CNN broadcasts internationally they have to compete on the global news market against international outfits like Skye News and Al Jazeera. To compete in the news markets outside of the US they will have to show both sides of the conflict.

In conclusion, market forces are what drives CNN to commit treason as these putzes describe it. Hooray Market Forces!

DeadZone: One question: Did the guy actually watch the video?

you'd think it'd be worth at least mentioning, if so.

can't say it's the same thing, but i saw this footage on CC walking by the boobtube at work one day not too long ago....the commentary was from a marine sniper, and they showed no one actually being killed (flip to black after the gunshot).

i'm unsure if this should make me join the jihad or the marines now.

apparently my keyboard shares my palsy....CC above should be CNN

Action Replay Nick: Why do you need commentary? Without rabidly pro-American commentary, you will change your mind take the side of the Iraqi snipers?

0WN3D

I hate when people submit stuff and then run away from their own threads. He'll probably ignore all of this and check back once it's on the mainpage and a few people show up who find this normal operation of the cable news network "absolutely disgusting".

So, CNN is showing snuff films, now? Must be sweeps.

heap: yah, my dad told me when i turned on his 'radio on demand' and requested the Guadalcanal audio, he didn't have the option of turning off the american commentary.

Kind of like the Hallmark broadcast of "Triumph of tthe Will", eh?

Action Replay Nick: I hate when people submit stuff and then run away from their own threads.

I'm at work.

Problem?

CNN Time Warner and Chase FARK's multiple greenlights of this same story are pleased to bring you "The Iraqi Sniper Hour," starring Dirka Dirka Mohmad Jihad and featuring the U.S. military

Action Replay Nick: So, Dancin_In_Anson what does Michael Ware say in the report?

I dunno. Haven't seen it.

BTW...You have no problem with this at all do you?

i don't see what the big deal is in showing what our soldiers are facing in Iraq, can someone explain to me why showing this is so terrible?

Dancin_In_Anson: So it's been policy to just broadcast it as is sans commentary?

I dunno. Haven't seen it.

you aren't connecting the dots here, are ya?

Headso: can someone explain to me why showing this is so terrible?

Some people seem to think showing another's death is a bad thing...

Guess that only counts in selected situations...

Dancin_In_Anson
I dunno. Haven't seen it.

That's OK, neither has the blog author I'm guessing.

BTW...You have no problem with this at all do you?

No, I don't. I find it interesting in fact. Insurgents filming their own tactics. If anything, it provides some intel for us, and CNN doesn't show anyone being murdered in cold blood, so I really don't see the issue.

Dancin_In_Anson: Some people seem to think showing another's death is a bad thing...

so because one group of asshats don't want to show Saddam getting hanged that excuses the other group of asshats who don't want to show the realities of Iraq?

that doesn't really answer my question as to why showing this is so bad.

Action Replay Nick: No, I don't. I find it interesting in fact.

Nothing like the extermination of a real human life, eh?

Dancin_In_Anson: think showing another's death

heap: they showed no one actually being killed

Dancin_In_Anson: I dunno. Haven't seen it.

Action Replay Nick: I suspect you're being deliberately obtuse and just need a fix of "RAGABABABAHHH LIBERAL MEDIA" bashing.

Dancin_In_Anson: Action Replay Nick: I hate when people submit stuff and then run away from their own threads.

I'm at work.

This coming from the guy who brags that he can watch porn on the job without repercussions.

Dancin_In_Anson
Some people seem to think showing another's death is a bad thing...

Man, you're just off today. There's no depiction of murder in the segment, I've actually seen it as well, about a month ago in a subshop.

And the comment you linked to in that other thread was in reference to the headline anyway.

If I had farky, you'd definitely be getting the "insane" label after this thread.

Headso: that doesn't really answer my question as to why showing this is so bad.

It's al qaeda propaganda...

Which I am now to assume is a good thing to show.


Who knew?

orrinbloquy: This coming from the guy who brags that he can watch porn on the job without repercussions.


What does that have to do with anything?

Action Replay Nick: There's no depiction of murder in the segment, I've actually seen it as well, about a month ago in a subshop.

I've seen the segment too and please don't distort it like it is all happy rainbows and sunshine, the video shows american soldiers being killed, they go to black for about an 1/8th of a second when the bullet actually makes impact but it is a video of soldiers being killed.

that said, if people like Dancin_In_Anson can't stomach the realities of war maybe they shouldn't be such rabid supporters of it.

Wait, wait, people are getting killed over there?


Nabb1: So, CNN is showing snuff films, now? Must be sweeps.

They show the "gun camera" footage from smart bombs all the time... Do you prefer your death sanitized?

// BTW, any of those "roadside bomb" videos? Someone probably at the very least got hurt in them... don't forget to get upset about that...

I'm not distorting it like rainbows. They don't show the killing because it's in poor taste to do so, which I happen to agree with. It's a segment about insurgent tactics, I don't see how I ever catergorized it as anything else.

Action Replay Nick: They don't show the killing because it's in poor taste to do so

it is what it is though, CNN did the equivalent of bleeping out the "uc" part of the F-word with their video.

If anyone is actually interested in watching the video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FopgmUw3HRE

Headso: it is what it is though, CNN did the equivalent of bleeping out the "uc" part of the F-word with their video.

and complaining that 'they said fark!' when ya never saw it would be kinda silly, too.