why give them air space

neffy · Post by **neffy** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 11:39 am

I was just watching the news and there was a report about Bin whats his face and and a vid of a terroist on the news,why give them air space:mad:

It is just giving them the attention they want,i say dod what they did on the IRA some years back and mute everything they said.

Post by **spot** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 12:03 pm

neffy;693198 wrote: I was just watching the news and there was a report about Bin whats his face and and a vid of a terroist on the news,why give them air space:mad:

It is just giving them the attention they want,i say dod what they did on the IRA some years back and mute everything they said.

Neffy, you do notice that "depriving the IRA of the oxygen of publicity" didn't end the Troubles but that negotiation did? And that the Troubles are over now and the IRA permanently disbanded because people negotiated instead of postured?

Chookie · Post by **Chookie** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 12:06 pm

Why give them air space? Because if you don't, you are effectively sticking your head in the sand - just as our forebears did with Hitler.

It's pointless to ignore a problem. It will not go away no matter how hard you ignore it.

wizzard · Post by **wizzard** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 12:06 pm

in this now media hungry word we live such a thing would not happen.

Patsy Warnick · Post by **Patsy Warnick** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 12:14 pm

the video wasn't just to show us his beard

reminder to all he is still alive - and by Osama sending a video as a threat/reminder or a Ha Ha you haven't found me.

Chookie your so right on -

Patsy

neffy · Post by **neffy** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 12:20 pm

well i see where you are all coming from but i still say dont give them air space and it is not me sticking my head in the sand,i know what goes out there

Post by **spot** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 12:35 pm

wizzard;693202 wrote: in this now media hungry word we live such a thing would not happen.It wasn't by choice, you know. It was the law at the time. That class warrior harridan Thatcher brought it in and imposed it on all the UK broadcasters.

Galbally · Post by **Galbally** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 5:39 pm

Although I strongly disagree with a lot of what spot says about bin laden, he is right here, banning his pronouncements from TV would not be a good idea for many reasons, I am against censorship in principal, though it is occasionally necessary I suppose, but in this case its not only philosophically dubious, its also a bad tactic. The people who are most important in the middle east would still hear it, as would anyone who wished to on here, the internet, along with lots of other things that are all on here. Also, it gives a false cachet to him in the eyes of some, and as chookie mentioned, these problems absolutely will not go away by switching over to big brother, not this time unfortunately. I have watched current events unfold with dismay in many instances, particularly iraq, but whatever your take on these things, what is happening now in the muslim world is having or going to have a very direct impact on our own countries, and we cannot afford to ignore it, as we do with so many things in the worlds, because of our lazy complacency.