-> On 09 Feb 09  16:51:44, Richard Webb got back to Dan Ceppa 
-> Re: Newsmen vs News Readers

 DC> "collateral damage" isn't displayed.  The made to war look like  a
 DC> video game.  

 RW> YEp, sure is.  "And here's the video from the nose camera
 RW> aboard this bomber, watch the smart bomb go down hte
 RW> chimney."

 RW> After all "shock and awe was just like the fourth of July
 RW> for the viewers at home.  fOr the embeddeds slogging across
 RW> the sand with the ground troops it was all boring, at first
 RW> anyway.

I swear it was choreographed to look like a regular fireworks 
display.  Again, it sanatized the maimings and deaths occurring 
under the light show.  
 
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