Boviosity!

Interesting Boyd-based analysis of the information war going on vis a vis the Abu Ghraib prison scandal vs. the Nick Berg video.

Nick Berg’s beheading ricocheted around the Internet yesterday, as it was meant to, in ostensible retaliation for the outrages at Abu Ghraib prison - themselves digitized weapons in the ongoing information war.

The murder was itself asymmetrical - so disproportionately horrible compared to the prison photos that only a madman would hold them remotely comparable.

So it would be appropriate at this time to flood the Internet with images of Saddam’s depredations - of which the United States possesses in the tens of thousands.

Thought my favorite Boyd fan would be interested in that. I wonder if the US media that's refusing to show the Berg video is thinking of what might come after if they were to show the beheading?

My local Fox affiliate announced the other night that they wouldn't show the moment of death, and so I didn't change the channel. I have no desire to see the video, as I'm already relatively certain even without seeing it that we need to kill these animals toot sweet. (Simplisme, thy name is Bovious.) Nevertheless, I was kind of pissed when they cut off the video and continued playing the audio of his death rattles.

Anyway, regarding the mainstream press, as President Bush has observed, "You're assuming that you represent the Public. I don't accept that." Less and less of the public is accepting that, too, I believe. So if the government releases the Saddam prison photos, and they should, and the mainstream press largely ignores them, and they will, I suspect the message will still somehow manage to get out.