Decapitation

[El D]

Amusing in light of the discussion we had on here that WEEKS after the Bigley affair it was considered tasteless to have a MOCK beheading on French and Saunders.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/050504/325/fi2lg.html

Pathetic - it's real life, it happened, move on. Perhaps the bbc would care to inform us as to the exact period of censorship following a tragic event. Murder is shown every night on our screens with it happening every day. Double standards?

[Aschenbach]

Today there are news networks (like Al Jazeera) and web sites (like ogrish. com) that show beheadings and all the realities of war and terrorism in graphic detail in a way that would have previously  impossible due to the censorship that governs the domestic media.

Exposure to this material doesn't desensitize or necessarily give any greater understanding but it makes it harder to get upset by F&S's sketch when you know what it's like actually watch a real beheading. I can't understand the hysteria generated by these stories (as with the NAZI fancy dress 'outrage' - still taboo after how many years?).