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Video: Psy-Ops - The War On Your Opinion (QTime)
Scoop Video: Psy-Ops - The War On Your Opinions (QuickTime)
In 2003 Scoop displayed graphic
images of innocents, including children, killed
by the United States led coalition forces. Scoop justified
the publishing of those images in an editorial that stated: To
sanitise the reality of warfare is abhorrent to those
serving the public interest. To censor images of capture, of
death, as a consequence of war, is wrong. If Scoop were to
do so, it would be subscribing to the glitzy rah rah top-gun
Hollywood-façade-style of reportage that the mainstream
United States based media has become obsessed with…
The founding purpose of information sharing is to empower individuals to make informed choices. If publishing these images causes those who would otherwise send more to their deaths or support the killing of innocents to consider the true consequence of their decisions, then publishing is justified.
Today, Scoop's position remains the same.
ALSO Scoop Audio: Scoop's Selwyn Manning
and 95bFM's Simon Pound discuss: the Scoop doco "
Psy-Ops - The War On Your Opinions" and how NZ's intel
agencies failed regarding Timor Leste.
ENDS
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