Chris Weigant: The Media’s Double Standard On Showing Neda’s Death
The American media has an enormous double standard on portrayals of violence on our television screens. It can be succinctly summed up as: real-world violence is obscured or (even worse) turned into a cartoon, but fictional violence is shown in stunningly full-color and high-definition clinical graphic detail -- for our entertainment. This disconnect is infantile. It is a form of censorship that the American public, for the most part, isn't even really aware of. But sometimes, as in the foot
Tags: Cartoon, Censorship, Chris Weigant, Fictional Violence, Graphic Detail, Portrayals, Real World, Television Screens, World Violence