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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
Fox is more concerned with striking a pose of sympathy with the victims than it is with giving viewers useful information about the world.
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"Striking a pose of sympathy with the victims"? You talk like they are faking sympathy with victims of a bombing for some political purpose. I don't think that's true and I think media actually distances us from the victims and makes some people into bit of an armchair commentator -- one who doesn't give enough regard to the fact of the deaths or the victims. Have you wiped off bloody bits of once alive but now instantly dead people from your clothing? I have. And so whereas you may look at the news and see a "political crisis erupting this afternoon in downtown X" or other kind of intellectualization, I think of it differently. I remember the faces of the kids who were blown up getting a slice of Sbarro pizza. So I don't mind a news story that focuses on the victim. In my view, a little more "sympathy for the victims" would be a good idea and wouldn't be "striking a pose" at all. In fact, I think we are all so used to hearing about this or that victim or bombing, we're desensitized to it.
