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Randy D

Isn't it irresponsible to show several wide shots and close ups of "secret" locations on internationally-available newscasts?


  I'm watching 60 Minutes, the lead story is about Syrian civilian hospitals being deliberately targeted by Assad's military forces in air attacks, the bombings of which are immoral and illegal.  To elude the horror, hospitals are being relocated far from where air strikes might be effective, but 60 Minutes showed several scenes of these locations, both inside and out. 

  Military planners use every imaginable resource to identify and locate potential targets. Isn't 60 Minutes culpable in assisting those efforts?  If so, it certainly seems counterproductive to alerting the world to the trajedy, when st the same time having a hand in its continuance.

 

Posted - August 5, 2018
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  • 2052
    Yes they are and in many other scenarios as well. Glorifying and giving way too much press coverage to murderers.  This encourages other sick individuals who want to make a "name" for themselves to commit similar crimes. -The press are guilty of trying to bring this country to ruin and blaming it on everyone else.  It is disgusting. those poor people in the hospitals, the preachers drawn a target on their location and are guilty as heck. 
      August 5, 2018 9:23 PM MDT
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  • 19937
    So, you're opposed to a free press?  Do you live in Moscow?
      August 6, 2018 8:43 AM MDT
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  • 19937
    Do you really think Assad's forces don't already know about these sites?  That's why they're bombing them.  There is nowhere in Syria to hide.  
      August 6, 2018 8:42 AM MDT
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  • 6023
    Kind of hard NOT to know where a hospital is.  They require a LOT of medical shipments, daily.

    Or you could just shoot somebody to wound them, and watch where they are taken.
      August 6, 2018 8:49 AM MDT
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  • 34297
    Yes. If it is something sensitive the media should be respectful of that. I remember in the Gulf War, Geraldo drew a map in the sand showing positions of troops while live on air. Just stupidity.
      August 6, 2018 9:31 AM MDT
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  • It's not really stupidity. It's being crazy like a fox. We talk a lot on this site about treason and sedition and that's what this is put very plainly. 
      August 6, 2018 9:40 AM MDT
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  • 6023
    Geraldo should have been relegated to the trash heap of journalism after "Al Capone's Vault".  LOL
      August 6, 2018 10:42 AM MDT
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  • 22891
    sounds like it
      August 6, 2018 2:51 PM MDT
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