CNN Posts video of shootout robbery where you see people getting shot on their website.

[Renew Deal]

This seems pretty unusual for an MSM site. This video is of a gas station robbery where there is a shootout between the workers and robbers. 2 people are shot. CNN posted the video on their site and put it on the main page. Is this appropriate on a mainstream site? I guess they accomplished their goals, because it's getting clicks.

http://cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/us/2011/10/11/am-robbery-clerk-fight-back.cnn.html

Aside from that, the way this video is presented is disturbing. It is presented as a blooper reel. You'd think they were talking about a dolphin balancing a beach ball or something.

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. Yes. I am getting tired of the cleaned up media

it is time people see the results of real violence.

[RKP5637]

3. Reminds me of the Vietnam war ... none really got the horror of the violence until

it was aired on TV every night.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Yup

the comentary that came with it belongs in the gungeon... but yep.

[Tom Ripley]

22. Vietnam coverage and footage of the attacks on civil rights workers are the only...

times that television has made a positive contribution to American society.
Everything else has been amusement and manipulation.

[RKP5637]

23. Exactly!!! And now IMO each day it becomes more and more just a tool of propaganda now we

have what, only about 5 major media conglomerates, and I'm sure at some level some of them talk among themselves as to the propaganda agenda. Dictators in history would have loved this environment.

[RKP5637]

2. It seems I saw this directly on TV yesterday. I can't recall the channel, maybe it was CNN. n/t

[pacalo]

4. Can you imagine Walter Cronkite reporting that? And in such a giddy manner as shown in the video?

[Renew Deal]

6. I should have mentioned that.

It was presented as a blooper clip when in reality it is a very violent confrontation.

[Ganja Ninja]

5. Why not? They showed robbers bombing Iraq during an oil heist.

:shrug:

[cyberpj]

16. SUCH an excellent point. nt

[madokie]

7. What sick is the dialog that came with that video

coward she uttered

[RKP5637]

24. That CNN crew IMO is CNN's equivalent of Fox and Friends. n/t

[snooper2]

8. You should checkout the shootout videos on YouTube, 100's, 1000's of them

Almost all are coverage by a news chopper and pretty much everytime the fucking idiot steps out of the car and they note a gun in hand..

Zooooooooooom Out a bunch..

within 3-7 seconds idiot is dead by a hail of gunfire

[Renew Deal]

10. I'm not sure I'm looking for that.

And that's why I didn't expect it on CNN.com. I've watched a couple of those videos when there's a big story like the LA bank robbery or the Atlanta bar shooting. But generally I'm not looking for that sort of thing.

[snooper2]

11. You should check out the cold start videos then

LOL :)

Cold start the 85 Ford LTD , -27 in Canada :rofl:

[Renew Deal]

14. Now that is cool!

Literally. :D I'm impressed every time my car starts, even when it's nice out.

[LeftyMom]

12. Is that unusual?

When I was a child (I don't remember the year, I think I was about ten?) there was a hostage taking at a store near my house. Several of the hostages were shot and killed, then police cut through the wall and shot most of the hostage takers. The video was shown on the news, and was later used in a bunch of those shows with footage of car chases and such. :shrug:

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. Yes, US Press has shied away from showing vids like that

since at least the 1980s... they are highly unusual.

There is more, they shy away from showing dead bodies as well.

[LeftyMom]

15. The incident I was talking about was in 1991. It was shown live on the news.

And video was extensively replayed later. I remember it really well, because it happened a few blocks from where I grew up. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Sacramento_hostage_crisis

[nadinbrzezinski]

17. Yes, they also showed the Hollywood robbery

But it is still unusual.

[uppityperson]

18. people got shot on their website?

Aside from the grammar, my apologies for the snark, it is inappropriate. MSM exists to sell ad space and this is a good example of that. "Tune in for the shooting!!!!" then an ad. Inappropriate.

[FarCenter]

19. It's extremely painful

[FarCenter]

20. Real shootings of actual people are OK -- dramatized shootings of fictional characters are not

Actual footage of real killing, complete with blood, gore and the agony of death inform people of real situations.

Dramatized shootings, as in cop shows or war movies, portray murder or killing in a sanitized and false way, which desensitises people to the true nature of the acts.

[Taverner]

21. I'm glad. People should see reality.

And yes, I am even in favor of magazines like "Alarma"