~ it is ‘news’ that al-zarqawi is dead now. why do cnn, msnbc, abc, and others also consider watching a video of a bombing to be following ‘news’? it is newsworthy that some thing has taken place; does touting the act as a spectacle truly make the event more important? ‘see! al-zarqawi’s corpse! see! his house getting blowed up!’

cnn showing off the video of al-zarqawi’s safe house getting bombed is the moral equivalent of al-zarqawi releasing a video of nick berg’s beheading on his website.

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