On Fri, 5 Jul 1996, Timothy C. May wrote:
At 2:37 AM 7/5/96, vinnie moscaritolo wrote:
There is no cure for the "revolutionary" terrorists .. If we do not even print their obit, there is no glory!
Tim, you are asking for the liberal media to act responsibly.. what were you thinking?
I did not write that.
However, I wouldn't think that "not printing their obit" is acting responsibly. As far as I'm concerned, I want the full news, or at least some reasonable approximation of it, not propaganda.
The issue here is that terroristic actions *are* propaganda. Does every idiot with a bomb deserve to be really big news? Anyway, I don't think Vinnie was suggesting that the news be censored -- just that the press doesn't have an obligation to print the obituary the "martyrs" want. There's a spectrum from "the popular front for the liberation of kooks, which believed blah blah blah because blah blah blah, just blew up a building" to "some kook just blew up a building." The latter is usually sufficient. If I care about the kooks, I can look them up, but I don't think the fact that they blew up a building gives them the right to propagandize the front page of my newspaper. -rich