Two US TV journalists shot dead on air
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J
This isn't about religious beliefs and the afterlife. It's injustice that was shown right on screen while racial tensions have been at an all time high and people refusing to acknowledge that what has been done IS a hate crime. Now people arguing over gun bans, thinking that this proves that our guns should be taken because of illegal gun owners. People who were going to work, doing what they had to do and hoped to return home by the end of the day caught on film in agony and shot to death. The first media shooting that has ever been recorded, too.
V
Not quite so. The November 19, 1978 slayings of Congressman Leo Ryan and 26 others at the Jonestown air strip in Guyana was captured on tape by an NBC photographer's camera after he himself was shot and killed by the ambush team.
[video=youtube;N5tpQcbyvK0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5tpQcbyvK0[/video]
There have been other similar tapes over the years as well where media members were killed in war zones, crime scenes, etc. News organizations don't release those, however, so we don't see them. Even you.tube doesn't have a big collection.
[video=youtube;N5tpQcbyvK0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5tpQcbyvK0[/video]
There have been other similar tapes over the years as well where media members were killed in war zones, crime scenes, etc. News organizations don't release those, however, so we don't see them. Even you.tube doesn't have a big collection.
J
Raising concern about the event and then bring our focus on something that isn't even part of our judgment to begin with sounds rather insensitive to me, especially towards the victim's families grieving. Then your closing statement to say where I stand on my belief system makes it more irrelevant, which questions me as to where your priorities stand on the subject.
I'm not going to be here arguing over something as pathetic as this. If you don't think my statement is 'Christian' or not, that's your opinion. It doesn't stop the tragedy that could've been well prevented to begin with.
V
I had to turn the television off because it was disturbingly apparent how the media is exploiting this tragedy to keep viewers tuned to the screen. Fake sentimentalism just to keep your attention. They made such a vivid psychological blueprint of the shooter's motive and strategy, I could imagine other terribly disgruntled persons making mental notes of it for future reference. Sensationalizing every graphic detail of brutality and murder is too distressing for me.
