Tuesday 11 May 2010

Cause celebre versus reality

A few weeks ago WikiLeaks released footage of US military action in Iraq that wound up wiping out two reporters. Yes, it was tragic, and yes it was disturbing. What was more tragic and disturbing was the way they went about "reporting" it. To me, and me alone going by the reception I got on YouTube when I asked the question about WikiLeaks integrity regarding this footage. It was flawed to the point of embarrassing. But, he who accuses first gains allies by default...

People were, and still are condemning the action and calling it murder - obviously by the title - many major news sources have waded in on the debate, there's calls for enquiries, charges, war crimes investigation etc etc...

Regardless of the debate about this footage there's one thing that blows my mind. Two Reuters reporters and several unarmed people were killed, this is a fact, but just yesterday 110 people were killed in Iraq by insurgents, AQ, or whatever you choose to call them. ONE HUNDRED AND TEN...as opposed to the TEN in Collateral Murder...

Where's the debate and nearly seven million views on this news item?.

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