Half of the Brain :
the place all those random thoughts that flit through my head each day go to die

you did abadbad thing

and made poor, poor editorial choices

drum roll pleeeeeeeaaaaasssseeee.....

the SHAME-ON-YOU award goes to--
all of those tv networks that have chosen to air the death pictures of the Hussein boys without warning to viewers.

really, those pics are quite gruesome and nothing I'd want the kiddos to see.

They generally give you warning before they report the sport scores of tape-delayed events, networks post advisories that "tonight's episode of Dawson's Creek is intended for our mature audiences". Is it expecting too much that the anchors give us a heads up?

MSNBC really has me scratching my head, though, but not simply because of the Hussein pics. A week or so back they ran a story on cat decapitations in Texas and in their reporting actually showed video of the mutilations-- yep, heads rolling. (And I'll be the first to admit that if I hadn't seen the report myself I'd chalk this one up to Urban Legend)

In the case of the Hussein brothers, I understand the importance--especially for the Iraqi people--of confirming the deaths AND in the scope of continuing media coverage of the military operation in Iraq I understand the story's newsworthiness. . . . but dead and decapitated cat bodies....