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- From: equnlivn@unix1.tcd.ie (Eoin P. O'Coindealbhain)
- Subject: Re: Should there be censorship???
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- Organization: Trinity College, Dublin
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- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 16:11:11 GMT
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- No there shouldn't any form of govenment
- censorship of factual incidents,this gives
- government too much power in controling what
- it wants us to see thus twisting our views to
- suit its needs.A good example of this is that
- during the Gulf War newsmen were forced to travel
- in pools and only see what they were supposed to
- see.This created a war on TV where none of the
- enemy died (in fact it's estimated that about
- 100,000 Iraqies died,many women and children).
- This was a clean war,a bit like the
- Saturday nigth war film,anyone who died was
- faceless and died quietly,there were no 17
- year old kids clutching their gut-shot wounds
- bleeding to death in the sand.
- Some of the most horrific scenes I've
- ever seen were taken illegaly (because of US
- censorship laws during the war) of burnt out
- Iraqi trucks,the charred remains of the drivers
- still in the cabs,the last remnants of an Iraqi
- retreat.
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