The Medium decides the Message

As per Riverbend, in Iraq:

The American and European news stations don't show the dying Iraqis… they don't show the women and children bandaged and bleeding- the mother looking for some sign of her son in the middle of a puddle of blood and dismembered arms and legs… they don't show you the hospitals overflowing with the dead and dying because they don't want to hurt American feelings… but people *should* see it. You should see the price of your war and occupation- it's unfair that the Americans are fighting a war thousands of kilometers from home. They get their dead in neat, tidy caskets draped with a flag and we have to gather and scrape our dead off of the floors and hope the American shrapnel and bullets left enough to make a definite identification…

It is sad, but true. Why should the american world be shielded from the truth that they bankroll? Why should they find comfort in a seductive, sterilized retelling of the story? They are afterall, really the only ones in the world who can influence it...