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to feel shocked at the coverage of Gaddafi's death?

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IvySedaiballs · 20/10/2011 18:56

I don't think she should have been killed like that. IMO he should have been captured, tried and then hanges or whatever. they had him, alive. apparently he was begging for mercy.
now he is dead and can not answer for his vile crimes.

none of the newscoverage that I have seen has addressed this, everyone is just celebrating. yes, he was a bad man, but this doesn't sit right with me.

also, showing pictures of hos dead body body on the six pm news?!

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fit2drop · 20/10/2011 21:55

Kinda ironic that he died hiding in a sewer..

LadyEvilEyes · 20/10/2011 21:56

It's a civil war, there are no niceties in war.
I'd prefer not to see it but sadly that is the world we live in.
At my age, sadly I am anesthitised sp. to the horrors that appear on the news, but the other way is censorship.
What would everybody prefer.

wannaBe · 20/10/2011 22:06

I started a similar thread about this before realizing that this one was there.

I think it's not so much what happened, Gaddafi was never going to be taken alive - he wanted to die a martyr to his people.

But why do we need to see close-up pictures of his bloody corpse on the 6:00 news? The same pictures that will be on the front pages of the newspapers in the morning? Seeing the body, not seeing the body, it isn't going to change anything. Who he was, what he has done, how he died, I see no issue with knowing that. But why do we, and ultimately our children, (because while you can prevent them watching the news you can't prevent them from seeing newspaper front pages) have to see the pictures? It's not entertainment.

FoxyRevenger · 20/10/2011 22:07

I feel a bit unsure about the argument that we have to see footage or nobody would believe he was dead. I don't think those shots would have been in the media a few decades back, and we were able to believe that people were killed then, weren't we?

LadyEvilEyes · 20/10/2011 22:08

No, it's not entertainment, it's the news.
Reality tv in fact.

chandellina · 20/10/2011 22:10

I find it really distasteful too. not sure how censorship comes into it - news editors must use their judgement. no need to show dead tsunami victims and the like

reelingintheyears · 20/10/2011 22:11

Well i agree with the OP.

wannaBe · 20/10/2011 22:12

the fact he is dead is the news. No-one is asking to sensor that.

The fact there are pictures of his blood spattered body just sensationalizes it.

We can still be subjected to the news without having to see the proof.

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IvySedaiballs · 20/10/2011 22:14

I turned on the news after the upsetting images warning, if there was one.
I was not expecting to see things like that on the 6pm news, and am glad DS1 wasn't there to see.
nothing to do with fecking bunting and property shows, nor am I trying to ignore what is happening in the world, go back and read the thread, astra.

I can empathise with the lybians and their actions, I was in bucharest in 1989 and the years before.
maybe I just don't like to be graphically reminded of that side of human nature.

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IvySedaiballs · 20/10/2011 22:16

before anyone says anything, I am not saying Ceaucescu and Gaddafi are on the same "level".

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mercibucket · 20/10/2011 22:18

Just been complaining to dh about this. Also rather sickening media blah about ira semtex etc from libya. All true of course but kind of overlooks our chummy relations with 'the devil' in the last few years

mercibucket · 20/10/2011 22:18

Just been complaining to dh about this. Also rather sickening media blah about ira semtex etc from libya. All true of course but kind of overlooks our chummy relations with 'the devil' in the last few years

LadyEvilEyes · 20/10/2011 22:19

It's not the lovely and comfortable UK though.
It's in a world totally alien to us. We watch children dying in East Africa, I haven't seen a thread started about the wrongs of that.
If you can't face it, don't watch the news.

LadyEvilEyes · 20/10/2011 22:22

'I'm not saying Ceaucescu and Gadaffi are on the same "level".
They were both hated dictators, and yes, they were exactly on the same level.

wannaBe · 20/10/2011 22:24

I don't necessarily agree with pictures of dying children in East Africa either. But on the whole those kinds of pictures are designed to provoke an empathic response. Whereas this is more like "ding dong the witch is dead, let's all dance on his grave."

You can avoid the news but you cannot avoid the newspapers. All those pictures from today's news will be on the front pages of tomorrow's papers - how do you avoid those? not go out?

wannaBe · 20/10/2011 22:29

also, according to

\link{http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15389550\bbc news}

the video footage/pictures haven't actually been independently varified.

So what if it's not him?

EdithWeston · 20/10/2011 22:32

I've just seen the front of The Telegraph on the SKY press preview.

It's horrible.

Your children may well be seeing that tomorrow.

UnlikelyAmazonian · 20/10/2011 22:33

ffs get a grip. We pay the bbc licence fee to see reporters risk life and limb to get images and reports on the bona fide death - and yes, his bloodied body - of a dictator we have been paying to get brought down.

I am waiting to hear from Blair. His advisors must be busy hiding in his duck-down hairpiece.

Also, OP you can't spell.

It's the News. It's not the 'turn away and don't look now' flippin football results.

UnlikelyAmazonian · 20/10/2011 22:34

I don't recall seeing such fainty jane-austeny type posts when the tsunami hit japan and we saw tiny black straggling figures running away from a wall of water.

Iggly · 20/10/2011 22:34

Showing pictures of him dead on UK news was not necessary.

There was one on the front page of the Guardian website - pissed me right off as I didnt have a choice, it was just there when I went to the page Angry

wannaBe · 20/10/2011 22:39

and what about the papers, unlikely?

We know that news can be upsetting and we can turn it off.

But you walk past any news stand tomorrow morning, into any supermarket, news agency, even past the windows, and there will be those pictures for your children to see.

We (even children) don't need to be shielded from the fact that Gaddafi is dead. This is history in the making and our younger dc and certainly our grandchildren will learn about it in years to come. But we don't need graphic images to back it up.

The watershed is there for a reason. If it must be shown then show it on the 10:00 news.

But it does not need to be on public display on every news stand up and down the country where you do not have the choice to not see it.

LadyEvilEyes · 20/10/2011 22:42

Yy UnlikelyAmazon.
If you can't face the frankly hideous, images that come up on the news then you really have to stop watching it.
And don't buy newspapers either.
All war is ugly, we can't avoid it and I really don't want to be 'protected' from images that are broadcast.
It's very sadly, what happens.

Amateurish · 20/10/2011 22:44

I agree with the OP (and I think that point was more about the killing of Gadaffi, rather than the coverage of it).

No one deserves to be treated like that, no matter what they have done.

This does not bode well for the future of the country. It's just bloodshed upon bloodshed.

UnlikelyAmazonian · 20/10/2011 22:45

Yes it does. And the pictures are blurred and no doubt the least bloodied they could come up with.

If you don't want to see how the world reports the news then i suggest you do something about it. Soap box or a court case to set a precedent as to why you should not pay your licence fee.

If you are worried about what your children see, then make sure they are never in the room when the news comes on (the times are set in stone and you know what they are probably)
and don't look at news stands. Oh and don't tell them that there is no tooth fairy.

UnlikelyAmazonian · 20/10/2011 22:48

"No one deserves to be treated like that, no matter what they have done. "

eh?

he was hiding in a drain pipe, he had been inciting his supporters to massacre everybody.

Once found in the pipe, and he was probably going to get a bit of a rough deal.

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