Me and Mr. Meyers

Editoral director of CBSNews.com, Dick Meyers, was a guest this afternoon on the Murray Wood Show (Rawlco Radio – 650 CKOM), explaining the decision of his network regarding the use (or rather, non-use) of beheading images on television. While explaining his own difficulty struggling with the issue, and propensity to “err in favour” of disclosure, his rationale included the fact that the images were beyond the realm of good taste and they served as propoganda.
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I called in, and suggested that his explanation would make more sense, had the contraversy over supressing “propoganda” images of Nick Berg’s murder not been played out over the backdrop of Abu Graihb and the weeks of tasteless prison photos that amounted to nothing more but different camera angles.
(Sorry, there are no transcripts, so this is from memory).
In addition to making a weak attempt to justify the use of the prison images as part of a “developing story” , Mr. Meyers actually attempted to claim that CBS had “broken the story” on Abu Graihb.
I corrected him. I reminded Mr. Meyers that the story had been actually “broken” by the Pentagon months before it made national news, had been covered in the back pages of print media, and was pretty much ignored until months later – when the photos became available.
I don’t think he was expecting that.
He seemed a little rattled. Then, the (extended) segment ended and he had to go.
Heh. Thanks, Murray.
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