3 responses to “Public executions brought back by YouTube culture”
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Antony,
You pretty much summed up my views. I do think that the fact that more and more phones are now shipping with better and better video capabilities means that we will see this more often . . though perhaps without this level of historical interest. Various comments I have read say that the device was a phone and I guess you can imagine our ‘correspondent’ getting it into the room with little or no problem. That may not have been the case with a regular video camera. Perhaps at future events of sensitivity, we will all be asked to leave our phones outside rather than just turn them off. After all, they now have much more intrusive functions than irritating ring tones.
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Hi Antony,
Happy new year first off, hope you are well.
The first thing I thought when I saw the Saddam video was that it is a snuff movie; it’s video footage of someone being killed. In the age of information in which we now live it seems that if something has happened there are no longer any barriers, physical or moral, to everyone seeing exactly what happened in all its gory glory.
I agree with you – this is the negative side of the information sharing, open networked world we live in today.
Does the positive outweigh the negative?
Steve
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These movies only show what actually happened, and if that is abhorrent, then the problem lies with the act of execution, not with the documentation of reality. Private execution would be no less grim, except in appearance.
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