From: Van oost Kenneth (kennethvanoost@belgacom.net)
Date: Sat 08 Mar 2003 - 21:44:31 GMT
Grant,
You're right of course, I too saw those pictures.
Don 't get me wrong here, I soley have it here about the words/
language used to support the notion of a ' clean ' war.
The thing you call disinformation shows/ proofs indeed that it
wasn 't so clean as it was portrayed.
Without the use of live- images, the notion of a ' clean ' war will
stay around. Targets is an abstraction unless you see the face of
the dead soldier and the tears of his wife and children.
Kenneth
----- Original Message -----
From: "Grant Callaghan" <grantc4@hotmail.com>
To: <memetics@mmu.ac.uk>
Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2003 9:34 PM
Subject: Re: Word-use spikes
> In the coverage by example on CNN you never will see,
> death of injured people, always pictures taken from a great
> hight. Those images support the use of the words, the ' clean '
> contents of the war doesn't show how people are blown to pieces.
> War has become a virtual, technological part of a playstation-
> game.
> Because of the fact that the image of one death American soldier
> can traumatize a whole county, the US opts for airraids. "
>
SNIP
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