Dear Jay,
I am surprised that you of all people feel this way. If not for the media,
Hitler may have over taken the world.
We can't have it both ways. Public information is just that, it's public.
Now there are some governments that believe in censorship and/or controlling
the media, however I choose not to live there.
Respectfully,
Samuel Morales
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Maynard" <jmaynard@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 12:43 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] [OT] Space shuttle - enough of the spectacle!
> On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 01:28:21PM -0500, ClassicVW@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > No, I don't need the gruesome details, and may
> > choose not to view them if I wish, but in a free society it should be
"my"
> > choice, not the government's. Definitely not pertinent to the OM list,
but
> > also not unimportant to citizens of a free society.
>
> <paramedic>
> You just pushed one of my hot buttons.
>
> You're totally ignoring the victims here. They have rights, too, and those
> rights include the right not to have their last words and actions and
images
> strewn across the public consciousness in the name of
> sensationalism...which, even if it's not your purpose (I'm not accusing
you
> of it), is most certainly the purpose of the "news" organizations who
fought
> to reveal every last bit of it. The Challenger crew deserved better, and,
> thankfully, this time they got it. I just wish that more people would see
> how self-serving the media is when pushing "the people's right to know".
> That's BULLSHIT! There are some things the people have no right to know.
> Those things include personal details of injuries and deaths.
>
> As a paramedic, there were several times when I had to put myself between
my
> patients and an obnoxious reporter/photographer's cameras. I didn't
hesitate
> to get the police to get them the hell out of my face, too, when that was
> called for. A friend even had to push one photographer out of the back of
> his ambulance after following him in there.
>
> I'm happy that NASA managed to keep that tape out of the media's greedy
> paws. The NASA exec who leaked the story was way, way out of line, and
> should have been fired.
> </paramedic>
>
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