On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 01:28:21PM -0500, ClassicVW@xxxxxxx wrote:
> No, I don't need the gruesome details, and may
> choose not to view them if I wish, but in a free society it should be "my"
> choice, not the government's. Definitely not pertinent to the OM list, but
> also not unimportant to citizens of a free society.
<paramedic>
You just pushed one of my hot buttons.
You're totally ignoring the victims here. They have rights, too, and those
rights include the right not to have their last words and actions and images
strewn across the public consciousness in the name of
sensationalism...which, even if it's not your purpose (I'm not accusing you
of it), is most certainly the purpose of the "news" organizations who fought
to reveal every last bit of it. The Challenger crew deserved better, and,
thankfully, this time they got it. I just wish that more people would see
how self-serving the media is when pushing "the people's right to know".
That's BULLSHIT! There are some things the people have no right to know.
Those things include personal details of injuries and deaths.
As a paramedic, there were several times when I had to put myself between my
patients and an obnoxious reporter/photographer's cameras. I didn't hesitate
to get the police to get them the hell out of my face, too, when that was
called for. A friend even had to push one photographer out of the back of
his ambulance after following him in there.
I'm happy that NASA managed to keep that tape out of the media's greedy
paws. The NASA exec who leaked the story was way, way out of line, and
should have been fired.
</paramedic>
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