Maybe you think this article is extreme: CNN Acquires Broadcast Rights on Executions by Guillotine in America but we shall see that which is extreme.
Today CNN serves up an audio recording of Kelly Gissendaner's last words before she was executed several days ago in Georgia, the first woman in seventy years.
We learn also Ms Gissendaner was singing "Amazing Grace" during the process of the execution which, presumably, follows the utterance of the last words.
The recording served by CNN includes only the last words she had to say and "Amazing Grace" was removed altogether.
In such a way, the public can feast on her suffering, rejoicing in her misery, and never understand the deliverance of the song she sang nor the fundamental reason for the solemnity of the moment.
Maybe you don't believe CNN would broadcast an execution by guillotine but my view is they wouldn't be able to find commercial advertisers faster for anything they could do. The only direction they need for anything is how much money it will make ... so ... roll cameras.
The True Confessions part is I would have downloaded her singing and possibly used it as a sample in something else. That may seem grossly disrespectful but the something else would not have been. That frosts me a little bit but the thing to freeze it all to ice is the audio recording was available at all. Anything for a buck.
Today CNN serves up an audio recording of Kelly Gissendaner's last words before she was executed several days ago in Georgia, the first woman in seventy years.
We learn also Ms Gissendaner was singing "Amazing Grace" during the process of the execution which, presumably, follows the utterance of the last words.
The recording served by CNN includes only the last words she had to say and "Amazing Grace" was removed altogether.
In such a way, the public can feast on her suffering, rejoicing in her misery, and never understand the deliverance of the song she sang nor the fundamental reason for the solemnity of the moment.
Maybe you don't believe CNN would broadcast an execution by guillotine but my view is they wouldn't be able to find commercial advertisers faster for anything they could do. The only direction they need for anything is how much money it will make ... so ... roll cameras.
The True Confessions part is I would have downloaded her singing and possibly used it as a sample in something else. That may seem grossly disrespectful but the something else would not have been. That frosts me a little bit but the thing to freeze it all to ice is the audio recording was available at all. Anything for a buck.
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