I just finished reading a very interesting on Der Spiegel-Online, which can be linked to ES's post about the globalized media and his idea of how we have to look for "...some reasonable account of world events" in order to get a more objective account of events. The article dealt with the increase of terror videos from insurgent groups on internet platforms as Youtube, which show uncut scenes from attacks on American troops...
This has caused a storm of protest by mostly American customers, who thump on Youtube's policy, which strictly forbids the graphic representation of violence...
But is it really the violence that strucks American customers? I am convinced that it is more the powerlessness they feel, because the globalized media and especially Youtube as a side-effect of this development, has gone "out of control" (very difficult to censor) a long time ago.
Nowadays people all across the globe accept this medium as a new kind of "account of events", except those who favor the filtered accounts and the idea of a succesful and "clean" war...
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