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Created: June 26, 2002
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Objectivity and the Media -
The Showing of VideoTapes by Suicide Bombers

Copyright: Jeanne Curran and Susan R. Takata and Individaul Authors, June 2002.
"Fair use" encouraged.

This essay is based on a New York Times article by Bill Carter in the Business Section on Friday, June 21, 2002: CNN, Amid Criticism in Israel, Adopts Terror Report Policy, at p. C 6. Backup. This article announces CNN's newly adopted policy to not air videotaped statements by Palestinian suicide bombers. Part of the reasoning behind this action is the recognition of the emotional turmoil aroused by such depictions and the contribution of that affect to the clearer-headed need to step back from the immediate level of of informal affect and trigger the more technical analysis of the political, economic, and ethical contexts.

References to Edward Twitchell Hall's affect and learning in The Silent Language: From criminology lecture, and More detailed discussion from Women and Society.

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