Censorship of violent imagery

[eroticartist]

In this country the violent images of war are censored from news broadcasts. The state knows that if then public sees the truth then it will become anti-war!
Mike Freeman

[Jacques]

78 journalists and media assistants have been killed since the start of fighting in Iraq in March 2003, two still missing. (Source - Reporters Without Borders)

Didn't see that on BBC News 24 +1 while they were telling us how well the 'theatre' was going.

[strictlybroadband]

True, true... I'm always amazed how "brave" the pro-war people are, when it comes to sending other people's children into battle.

[planeterotica]

Yes Tony Blair is a very brave man sending people into battle on the command of George Bush i wonder if he would readily send young Leo when he his old enough, somehow i doubt it.

[eroticartist]

Hi mucho,

Mrs Mary Whitehouse(the anti-porn campaigner-now deceased) advised the Home Office that they should censor explicit war images in future because the Americans were becoming anti-war during the Vietnamese conflict from watching the news. She said that it would be hard to get young men to join up in the future if they did not.

Do you think that the present war in Iraq is justified?
Mike Freeman

[DavidS]

No Mike it was not. However a lot of people, myself included, were fooled into supporting it because evidence, since discredited, was produced that seemed to prove Saddam was a danger to his neighbours in particular and the world in general.

[eroticartist]

Hi strictlybroadband,

Is it co-incidental that wars always seem to start when the young men, the flower of our youth, seem to be getting a bit revolutionary? !sad!

Mike Freeman

[eroticartist]

I was talking about the 1st and 2nd World Wars.
Mike Freeman

[eroticartist]

Hi David,

When a great general retired in Ancient Greece he was allowed to enter the Senate. His views were respected, specially in times of conflict.
Soldiers do not like to fight unjust wars.

How about Sir Michael Rose ex SAS as adviser to the government in times of
possible war?

Mike Freeman