It is very troubling that a young life was taken in this manner and one's heart goes out to her father who was with her at the time of the killing. Neda and her father were standing on the sidelines and not actually part of the demonstrations. Media in the US and Canada have no specific information as to who killed Neda. However, what is also troubling is the way her death is being exploited.
CNN is repeatedly showing gory pictures of her killing. Why in this instance?
When a crazy racist white supremacist goes to the Holocaust museum in Washington D.C and kills a guard, did the US media show the dead body of the guard? No. Another crazy person kills an abortion doctor. Was the dead body of the doctor displayed on TV? No. Many more such public murders have taken place in the US but no bodies were shown. So why then the dead body of Neda which is displayed again and again and again?
One can draw only one conclusion, that CNN and others reporting here do not consider Iranians as humans and for them it is okay to show dead bodies as we show the dead bodies of seals. Another obvious conclusion is that CNN and other western media are putting gas on fire in order to destabilize Iran. I am very saddened by all this.
