Every goddamn news outlet needs to show the atrocities. (Trigger warning: Desc. of war casualty)

[LuckyCharms]

I'm so shook up that I probably won't be able to get my point across.

I did a post the other day about how fucked-up it seemed to me that a show called "Entertainment Tonight" was doing stories about Ukraine. The post kind of sunk. I think only a few people understood my point because I probably didn't convey it well at all.

I'm sitting here crying and shaking with fucking rage right now, wishing I was a bit younger and a lot more healthy so I would be physically able to take my ass to Ukraine and fight.

I just watched two videos in which a civilian Ukrainian father was killed by the Russians in the middle of a road while the adult son screamed "please don't die daddy" in his native language. The second video showed the deceased father thrown into a ditch by the side of the road, with one of his shepherd-like dogs sitting by his side. His other dog was massacred in the van that either the father or son was was driving.

CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, FOX "Entertainment Tonight"...why aren't you showing videos like this, uncensored? Let the world see. stop talking. Shut your fucking pieholes. Just show the videos continuously. Let everyone see. Make people puke with rage and contempt over what Putin is actually doing over there.

I want to type a lot more, but I'll get banned.

[pwb]

1. Being silent on issues is what they do. They are not news.

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They only want viewers. The more people watch the more they charge for ads. I feel much better without their questions and thoughts on things.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

2. Why this war over others?

[LuckyCharms]

3. I don't remember stating that...

I didn't feel the same way about other wars/conflicts. In fact, I did.

Are you questioning why I decided to make a post about this particular situation?

[ret5hd]

4. I've stated before...we are a nation of children.

We have no concept of “responsibility”…only “rights”. This goes from the very top (think Barbie Bush and her “beautiful mind” quote) all the way down to that hick sovereign citizen in Joetown, USA. Our national psyche is warped…despite mine or yours or our friends rationality and grasp of reality…our group/national psyche is warped.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

10. Agree too many damn

Narcissists in our population.

[LuckyCharms]

11. Agree 100%. n/t

[markie]

5. "wishing I was a bit younger

and a lot more healthy so I would be physically able to take my ass to Ukraine and fight"

I think a lot of us here are feeling that way right now!!!

[WarGamer]

6. were they legit videos? From 2022?

I think the networks would run them if legit

[LuckyCharms]

7. Yes. n/t

[WarGamer]

8. then I don't think the MSM should hold ANY confirmed videos back.

[LuckyCharms]

9. I agree. I think my OP is mainly due to the treatment

of the situation on the show "Entertainment Tonight".

I do not usually watch TV, but my wife had it on the other night and I had my back to it while at the computer, and I lost it when I heard Entertainment Tonight come on and they were talking about Ukraine. The irony of this hit me, and then I started thinking about how Biden's poll numbers are currently low, (and that's all I ever hear when I do happen to be near a TV), yet the reason for Trump's first impeachment is not being consistently talked about instead, etc. etc.

And then all of THAT got me thinking that many people do not pay attention to anything and just go about their lives. For example, we on DU know about Trump pulling our troops out of Syria, and the betrayal of the Kurds and all of the anguish that caused, but if you ask Joe Average what they think of that situation now, they most likely won't remember it, or they most likely will not know what you are talking about.

I'm trying not to generalize too much, but too many people in this country (not the majority of people, but nevertheless) merely know that Russia is attacking Ukraine, and that's about it. I think the job of MSM is to inform truthfully, and to attempt to get important matters into the minds of people. I do not want to hear the theme music for "Entertainment Tonight" playing while talking about a dire matter, and I don't want the situation in Ukraine to be presented in a comparatively vanilla manner by pretty smiling people.

[Brainfodder]

12. 90% controlled by the Putin fanboy side of deranged U.S. politics?

I've seen this as status quo (nation really for the wealthy) maintenance for a while.

Keep a fearful bunch of the dumbest gullible citizenry on vote blast....

[walkingman]

13. Actually I've been thinking about this. During our illegal and unnecessary

war with Iraq the Bush administration it seems that our leaders decided we shouldn't see the carnage of war so I personally think that the news media has a important role to keep us informed. It is up to us to be able to disseminate what is reality and what is propaganda. Such is life.

[live love laugh]

14. "...stop talking. Shut your fucking pieholes. Just show the videos.."

[bullwinkle428]

15. The story of the elderly woman, dragging herself away from the wreckage

of a residential building those bastards hit with a missile. She lost her foot. It totally broke me.