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Media Coverage of CNN Victory

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Posted on Wed Sep 14, 2005 at 07:37:57 PM EST
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MediaMatters calls attention to an underreported story: CNN's lawsuit to vindicate its right to photograph (against the initial wishes of the Bush administration) victims of Hurricane Katrina.

In response to restrictions placed on the media covering the Hurricane Katrina disaster by New Orleans emergency operations chief Terry J. Ebbert and Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, CNN successfully filed suit against the U.S. government to protect the right of the press to photograph the deceased victims of the hurricane. But aside from CNN, most major media outlets have given scant coverage to, or ignored entirely, CNN's legal victory or the subsequent reported violations of the federal court order by government personnel on the ground.

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    Media Coverage of CNN Victory | 15 comments (15 topical)
    Re: Media Coverage of CNN Victory (none / 0) (#1)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:50 PM EST
    And especially the MERCENARIES that the Bush admin. has put into the disaster region, apparently with POLICE POWERS. Those guys don't listen to ANY legal authority -- why should they? They dispense justice from the barrel of their illegal rifles. "Justice Taney has his decision. Now let him enforce it." Deploying mercenaries domestically is a violation of the Constitution and the spirit of the Declaration of Independence. Just another day for the Bushco traitors.

    Re: Media Coverage of CNN Victory (none / 0) (#2)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:50 PM EST
    The UN Commission on Human Rights resolution 2003/2
    ..."Convinced that, notwithstanding the way in which mercenaries or mercenary-related activities are used or the form they take to acquire some semblance of legitimacy, they are a threat to peace, security and the self-determination of peoples and an obstacle to the enjoyment of human rights by peoples..."
    Having already degraded the international standards of law that BAR deployment of mercenaries in an occupation, the Bush admin. now is deploying mercenaries INSIDE the United States -- and trying to bar reporters and cameras from the area. That's the primary gist of this CNN lawsuit, and we are right up against an(other) impeachable offense by the Attorney General and his bosses.

    Re: Media Coverage of CNN Victory (none / 0) (#3)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:50 PM EST
    Couldn't show any shots of the soon to be dead falling from the WTC though, since that might inflame opinion in ways that CNN doesn't like.

    Re: Media Coverage of CNN Victory (none / 0) (#4)
    by Sailor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:50 PM EST
    Well, a lot of good that did: September 13, 2005 Outside one house on Kentucky Street, a member of the Army 82nd Airborne Division summoned a reporter and photographer standing nearby and told them that if they took pictures or wrote a story about the body recovery process, he would take away their press credentials and kick them out of the state
    "The cockroaches come out at night," he said of the residents.
    Re: Media Coverage of CNN Victory (none / 0) (#5)
    by Sailor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:50 PM EST
    JR is once again completely wrong. Can I see a show of hands of folks who saw the coverage of the LIVE bodies jumping out of the WTC? The wingnuta are now officially on record for being against almost every tenet of the constitution: No freedom of press. No right to trial. Torture is OK. Warrantless searches are OK. You don't have a right to confront your accuser. You don't have freedom of speech. There is no freedom of assembly. Please, please, wingnuts, ask me for links. Et al - Anyone can play, please join in!;-)

    Re: Media Coverage of CNN Victory (none / 0) (#6)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:50 PM EST
    "The cockroaches come out at night," he said of the residents.
    I'm led to understand that FEMA transmissions during the relief effort were overheard in which residents were referred to as "cockroaches." I'm attempting to find out if any of the radio enthusiasts who were monitoring emergency communications at the time have recordings or logs they would be willing to provide.

    Re: Media Coverage of CNN Victory (none / 0) (#7)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:51 PM EST
    Oops, ""Justice MARSHALL has his decision. Now let him enforce it." What's the difference. Both Marshall and Taney had vastly more developed careers before the bench than Cheap Judgeship Roberts.

    Re: Media Coverage of CNN Victory (none / 0) (#8)
    by Ernesto Del Mundo on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:51 PM EST
    since that might inflame opinion in ways that CNN doesn't like.
    As in "let's go kill all the ragheads that live on top of our oil"?

    Re: Media Coverage of CNN Victory (none / 0) (#9)
    by socallawyer on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:51 PM EST
    It was staggering how underreported in the media the initial gag order was as well as the successful lawsuit by CNN.

    Re: Media Coverage of CNN Victory (none / 0) (#10)
    by jimcee on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:51 PM EST
    Well now that CNN can film the bodies of human beings and show them on TV that should supply the raw meat the Left has been clamoring for. Now the opinion vultures can revel in the bloated bodies of women, children and the elderly as they circle looking for a tasty morsel of gore as they try to satiate thier blood lust. Thier screeching voices will be srengthened on the flesh of innocent people who were unfortunate enough to be recovered while the cameras roll. Enjoy your offal. And I'm sure that CNN will only show the most tastful of images and hopefully the victim's relatives will feel better knowing that thier loved ones will become a soapbox for the grimmest of the Leftist punditry.

    Re: Media Coverage of CNN Victory (none / 0) (#11)
    by Sailor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:51 PM EST
    After 2 weeks in water and/or heat I doubt whether even wingnuts could identify their own mothers. Trust wingnuts to be all for a military suppression of freedom of the press. Is there any freedom they won't attack?

    Re: Media Coverage of CNN Victory (none / 0) (#12)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:52 PM EST
    Posted by SoCal Lawyer: "It was staggering how underreported in the media the initial gag order was as well as the successful lawsuit by CNN." There are two problems here: 1) I don't see where CNN got a restraining order. 2) I don't see where CNN won a lawsuit. Didn't the gov't appear with an offer of concession, and the case get dismissed pending reopening if further events occured? That's not wining a lawsuit; that's prevailing WITHOUT a lawsuit. No ruling ensued. Winning the lawsuit, having a decision in writing, would have been far more important.

    Re: Media Coverage of CNN Victory (none / 0) (#13)
    by jimcee on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:52 PM EST
    I'm not a wingnut although if I am tarred as one the is fine by me afterall as long as I am tarred by some nitwit kool-aid drinker. If CNN wants to show bodies, identifiable or not they can by court order. My thought is why would they want to do that? We know that many people died gruesome deaths in the storm but why the need to show in graphic detail the bodies? Agenda anyone? It is a sad requeim for the dead to be paraded across the airwaves to satiate some ghoulish political agenda but that has never stopped some from being ghoulish. If your point is to make Bush look bad by dredging up victims of a natural disaster to display for all to see I can only conclude that you are so morally bankrupt that you don't care. That some dead and sodden victims can become the bloody shirt for someone's cheesy political nonsense is reprehensible. Dance on the dead all you want because it just shows what political light-weights some people are. I guess it is OK to abuse the dead if you have the right political idealogies. I'm surprised that there are those sh*tty enough to do this but then again.....

    Re: Media Coverage of CNN Victory (none / 0) (#14)
    by Sailor on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:52 PM EST
    standrard wingnut response: 1) move the goal posts; "... the victim's relatives will feel better knowing that thier loved ones will become a soapbox for the grimmest of the Leftist punditry. " vs "If CNN wants to show bodies, identifiable or not ... " 2) Change the subject: "If your point is to make Bush look bad" 3) Attack the person: "I can only conclude that you are so morally bankrupt that you don't care." 4 Blame clinton. Well, give 'em time;-)

    Re: Media Coverage of CNN Victory (none / 0) (#15)
    by squeaky on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:52 PM EST
    jc-let's keep it nice and light because it is such a tragedy:
    It is a sad requeim (sic) for the dead to be paraded across the airwaves to satiate some ghoulish political agenda but that has never stopped some from being ghoulish.
    Runaway White brides stories can be examined and hyped in every detail because they are hardly tragic, just entertainment. Keep em fat and happy and they won't complain. Right Jimcee.

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