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

267 replies

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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UnlikelyAmazonian · 20/10/2011 22:49

" the.coverahe"

I refer you to the title of this thread.

Amateurish · 20/10/2011 22:50

"rough deal" - fine. Summary execution - not fine.

wannaBe · 20/10/2011 22:50

I don't buy the papers.

But I walk past them in shops.

And as I can't see, I can't see the images anyway. But my child can. And your children can.

Nothing wrong with having "gaddafi is dead," on the publically displayed front pages. Why do we need to see the pictures to know what happened? why? and if we must have pictures in the press, why do they need to be on the front pages on public display?

People would be quick enough to complain about a picture of a topless woman or the latest Lady Gaga video on the basis of the influence it would have on young, impressionable children. But a recently murdered corpse covered in blood is ok?

wannaBe · 20/10/2011 22:53

and yes, it was summary execution and was barbaric. And while it's easy to understand why and even the celebration behind it, two wrongs don't make a right.

LadyEvilEyes · 20/10/2011 23:00

Yes, but in the UK we live in a Democracy.
In Libya, they have being living under a dictatorship, none of us know what that would have been like.
Who knows how we would have reacted if we swapped lives.
Hopefully there will be a democracy in Libya now and their people can finally live in peace.
I can live with the picture of a dying dictator if that could be the case.

UnlikelyAmazonian · 20/10/2011 23:00

wannabe - "I don't buy the papers."

Why not?

If you go online to get your news then I don't get your argument, as the images and story-lines that are automatically generated (tits, jordan, violent car crashes, trees falling on babies, tattoos gone wrong, dead jacko etc) are much worse than a finally finished-off murderous dictator like Colonel G.

UnlikelyAmazonian · 20/10/2011 23:01

"summary execution" ?? Confused

they found him in a pipe after he had been inciting his supporters to fight and murder anyone in their path
and they shot him.

Amateurish · 20/10/2011 23:09

What do you call it when you capture someone, they beg for mercy, then you load them into a truck and shoot them in the head? Because I call that an exceution.

Amateurish · 20/10/2011 23:10

or indeed "execution"!

LadyEvilEyes · 20/10/2011 23:20

Dunno, Amateurish, obviously I've never lived in that situation.
None of us have. In a civil war horrible things happen. It's all very well being all stiff upper lip and saying that is against the Geneva Convention.

Of course it was wrong, he should have been arrested and brought before the Court Of Human Rights. But then I've not lived in Libya under his rule.
Hopefully we can leave it up to them now.

ddrmum · 20/10/2011 23:24

No need to put it on the early news - far too graphic and no warning that I heard.

MumblingAndBloodyRagDoll · 20/10/2011 23:24

There was no warning on the front of the online eition of some newspapers...you logged on and saw this NIGHTMARE of a dead face.

I think it' disgusting to desecrate bodies like this. Even war criminals have souls.

loopylou6 · 20/10/2011 23:25

Oh really. do people believe bin laden is really dead? is he bollox.

going to sleep now, but will come back in the morning.

Proudnscary · 20/10/2011 23:32

YABU this is huge news and I'm afraid these images are important

dramatrauma · 20/10/2011 23:33

He was widely hated, and the manner of his death is not an unprecented one as nasty African dictators go. Remember Samuel Doe?

LadyEvilEyes · 20/10/2011 23:34

Yes, the war criminals that created the holocaust or the genocide in Bosnia and Cambodia
Sadly all I've seen is the old photos of their victims, images that have remained in my mind.
The war criminals with souls, not seen it so much. They mostly got away with it.

dramatrauma · 20/10/2011 23:40

Oh, and YABU to be shocked. Or naive. What did you reckon they were going to do if they found him alive inside Libya? This was a foregone conclusion. And showing the images - of course everyone who has been awaiting his end wants to see the images. Because they want to know he's dead. I want to know he's dead.

MumblingAndBloodyRagDoll · 20/10/2011 23:42

Why can't you just believe it? Do people completely doubt ALL agencies like the BBC and the millitary? If so that's very sad.

MumblingAndBloodyRagDoll · 20/10/2011 23:46

LadyEvilEyes those images remain with me too. I have no need to stare at the dead bodies of evil men....so that I can crow and celebrate. there is a nasty element to all this.

whattheactualjeff · 20/10/2011 23:53

War is dreadful and barbaric. We can't pretend otherwise and the manner of Gaddafi's death matches his fundamental assumption that violent and degrading death is really ok. We should see the pictures.

gaelicsheep · 21/10/2011 00:03

Personally I was really shocked to see those images being broadcast on the BBC with totally inadequate prior warning. Really really shocked. I'm not naive and I understand that much worse than this goes on, war or no war, but by broadcasting that video it seemed like they were condoning it. The BBC does not feel impartial today.

whats4teamum · 21/10/2011 00:07

If you were Libyan you would have felt sense of catharsis. Live by the sword.....

WetAugust · 21/10/2011 00:10

Censorship of what we are and are not allowed to see is more disgusting and dangerous than seeing footage of the last minutes of a terrorist.

It's news and news can be brutal.

gaelicsheep · 21/10/2011 00:18

I disagree. We need to know what happened. We do not need to have our noses rubbed in how it happened. The age of 24 hour news is desensitizing us as a society.
I would have liked the option to switch off. I was not made aware that I was about to see footage of a man being put to death. And I read on this thread that this was on the 6 o' clock news too? That is plain despicable.

GothAnneGeddes · 21/10/2011 00:20

I think media coverage of death varies hugely depending on where the events took place. The UK media seems far less recitent about showing dead bodies in Africa and Asia then in the UK, Europe and the US.

I think the killing Ghaddafi was less from revenge then a desire to end his dynasty.

I just hope Assad is next to go and soon.