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Originally Posted by shakran
I take issue with this. We are not here to help you heal. We are here to give you the facts, even if you don't like them. That video is a material fact to this story. The networks ran it in one newscast, and now that they've done that, they're planning to severely limit showing any of it again - in other words, if an editor wants to use a clip from the video, he'd better have a damn good reason. I don't think they're being irresponsible here. I'm sorry that the video is disturbing -- - you won't get any argument from me on that. But sometimes disturbing things happen and it's unfortunately for all of us our job to tell you about them. Don't look to the news to heal yourself - you need to find your own way to heal.
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Sorry for being vague on that respect then, I didn't mean that people are looking to the news to heal - it's just hard to do so much as venture out in public without being blanketed at all times by the images. Seeing the video get aired was also not a fun experience for a lot of people. Either way, I didn't mean to offend and I apologize. I'm a little too close to the issue to talk about it rationally, so I'll just lurk in this thread.