2 people die in Iraq and its international news?
March 30th, 2009 | by admin |3 teens in my town got killed in a car accident and its local news, 2 Americans die in a helicopter crash and its international? Really, do we need to get constant updates on every little death in Iraq?
well unfortunately the news from Iraq is watched more than local news so it sell more ad time for the TV stations just a fact of life they put on news to sell ads and make money
By JILLIAN B on Mar 30, 2009
is death little ? !!!
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By larmarine83 on Mar 30, 2009
"every little death in Iraq?" Kid, you best just step away from the computer and pray you never say some shit like that to a Veteran, but hey, you ain't got the balls to say anything to someones face now do you kiddo?
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By Ya-sai on Mar 30, 2009
When it is the innocent that die, yes we need to know. But not when soldiers die, when they wear that uniform they are a walking death casualty
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By kev l on Mar 30, 2009
well unfortunately the news from Iraq is watched more than local news so it sell more ad time for the TV stations just a fact of life they put on news to sell ads and make money
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By Carpe diem on Mar 30, 2009
Yes it is international news….Yes on the updates too…
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By Beas on Mar 30, 2009
Yes we do,people do care about your local news.If those three teens had lived to derve thier country,and had passed in the line of duty on foriegn turf that would be international news.And,also,our troops are at war.If you watch the news you should know that.And those soldiers ,along with many before them ,and sadley many after them,died serving thier country so you could have freedom.Try thanking a vet sometime,you then might understand.my sympathy`s to those childrens family and friends.
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By MiRaNdA rOsE on Mar 30, 2009
dude. you better learn something here. the kids in ur town probably died from being STUPID, driving to fast, being drunk. anyway the people who die in iraq are FIGHTING FOR US, for the USA, they are risking there lives for our FREEDOM!!! imagine being in iraq, i dont see u joining the army. yeah the war is bad, people have different opinions about it, but we still have to support our troops. so little boy death isnt little no matter who it is. those men and women fighting in iraq should be people you look up too, no bitch because they have updates.
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By america_the_boofoo on Mar 30, 2009
Yes. We need to hear about it every time Americans die over there. There are many reasons, but one is that the government would prefer that we don't hear about it.
Thirty-some years ago Life magazine was called un-American and vilified for running a 2-page section, once a week, yearbook-style w. pictures and names, of all the soldiers who died in Vietnam that week.
The government and and lots of Republicans screamed and hollered (just as they did about the Wall [the Vietnam Memorial] that reporting all the solders who died was giving "aid and comfort" to the enemy. The government would rather that you and I do not know a thing about what is happening over there, especially whether anybody died today. That is one reason we need to know.
The other reason is that every time an American soldier dies in service we should pause and reflect. Even if it is only long enough to hear or read the fact that it happened, and whether we think our boys and girls should be over there or not.
Wars are possible if armies are thought of as masses of expendable fodder. The minute we start thinking of each soldier as an individual person with a mom and dad and a boyfriend or girlfriend, we start breaking down one of the basic premises that makes war an easy decision for our leaders.
This is why the Vietnam War Memorial was so subversive–never in history in any country in the world in the last 10,000 years of warfare have the names of every soldier who died been revealed to the public all in one place where each soldier was presented as an individual, rather than merely another number in the total of casualties.
People now forget how subversive this idea was and how much the government hated it.
So each time single a soldier's name is spoken or printed, the soldier lives once more–if only for a moment–in the ears of the hearer and the mind of the reader, and the rest of the living soldiers get the benefit of a public who might think one more time about whether more soldiers should die for this same cause or whether their lives should be preserved for another purpose.
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By Monkey Pie on Mar 30, 2009
It's military deaths. You idiot. If you have your dad or son over there you'll be complaining you're not getting enough. You freaking idiot.
So teens getting in car wreck is bigger then military people dying in war? No wonder people go gaga over stupid American Idol and Anna Nicole stories.
People dying while serving for a country is far greater news then bunch of teens dying in drunken wreck.
What in the world happened to you head?
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By Antriksh on Mar 30, 2009
because American media wants to.
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