The other Bryan wrote something
The other Bryan wrote something yesterday that definitely needs to be said about the rescue of Pfc. "Baby" Jessica Lynch:
YES, it's fantastic we got her back alive, but just like with Elizabeth Smart I wish people would make the tiny, tiny mental leap as to what these two must have gone through and quit yucking it up on the airways over how wonderful and wacky life is.Paula Zahn, Katie Couric -- all you smiley cutesy talking heads out here -- you must know this. So before you bust out the champagne, let's at least try to push down that gleeful smile and pause for a moment. Reflect on just what a HUGE ordeal she must have gone through. She's 19. She will never be the same. This was not over on Tuesday. It won't be over when the media stops covering troop movements to focus the spotlight on this Human Interest Piece with a pretty face.All the rest of the ambushed soldiers were summarily executed. This one beautiful young woman was, for several days (and thank Jesus we spared her the YEARS of it she might have gotten), almost certainly raped many times.
(And does anyone doubt that if she were not as pretty, she wouldn't be getting this much attention? And did anyone stop to think that if she weren't a cute, blond-haired, blue-eyed thing, that she would have probably been executed along with the others in her squad? I'm not going to spell that out. Think about it for a second.)
This experience is going to screw up this girl's life forever. So it would be nice if the anchors took this opportunity to probe that they really are human beings and exhibited a little more awareness of this fact.
I have personal experience with how grotesque and callous the media can be in spinning the stories they sell. I'll share that one another time.
Posted by Matt at April 3, 2003 9:57 AM
