ABC: Reality show of murderers
August 5, 2005
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Pyotr Romanov.) The U.S. ABC's late-night hard news program Nightline has shown an exclusive interview with a member of MS-13, one of the most dangerous gangs in the U.S. and several Latin American countries.
It was done, deliberately, soon after ABC broadcast an interview with Chechen bandit Shamil Basayev, which provoked the protests of the Russian Foreign Ministry and the indignation of common Americans, and despite the Russian ministry's decision not to prolong the accreditation of ABC staff in Moscow.
This is a highly "original" line of defense chosen by the channel. Its leadership apparently decided to prove that the principle of freedom of speech allows them to show the world's scum and butchers and hence the interview with Basayev was routine and quite normal for American television.
There is some similarity between the two men. Chechen terrorists became notorious after videotape broadcasts showing them decapitate hostages. Jose, a member of the MS-13 gang shown by ABC shortly after the interview with Basayev, as well as other members of that criminal group like decapitating people too.
Jose said he was used to seeing corps all around, decapitated, maimed and the like. "We torture them before killing," he said, to the delight of beer-swilling Americans watching him on TV.
Personally, I cannot accept the logic of ABC leaders - and many other normal people, including in the U.S., will surely agree with me - that the founding fathers of American democracy fought for freedom of the media to show the decapitated bodies of innocent victims and broadcast philosophizing pathological killers. I thought the "founding fathers" had different goals.
This "sewage globalization," which ABC leaders are trying to present as democracy and freedom of speech, has convinced me of one thing: The channel's staff will not be left without work. The world is neck deep in garbage, so the ABC journalists have a very wide choice.