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[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Diane_Keaton
"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.

I think that Fox coverage of such events involves striking a pose and desensitizing people, and that what you just said does not. I don't mind focusing on the victims at all. I just think it's idiotic to call suicide bombers "homicide bombers" out of an impulse to avoid mentioning that the attacker ended up dead as well.