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TV audiences are expressing strong voices of criticism towards the news report by MBC's "News Desk" on Tuesday, which aired the whole process of a U.S civilian being beheaded by an armed Islamic group.
Under the title, ¡°Horrifying Decapitation Scene,¡± MBC¡¯s "News Desk" reported the incident from the very beginning. The tape contained a U.S. civilian named Nicholas Berg, tied with a rope, sitting in front of five men wearing headscarves. The men then read aloud what seemingly sounded like a statement of reason for the execution.
Berg was then slain to death immediately afterwards.
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Michael Berg (center), the father of the American hostage beheaded by Iraqi resistance forces, mournfully holds his daughter Sera in his arm at his house in Pennsylvania on Tuesday after receiving the news of the beheading. /AP
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MBC¡¯s ¡®News Desk¡¯ failed to omit graphic details of this execution and one of the five men holding Berg¡¯s cut-off head filled the TV screen.
KBS¡¯s ¡°News 9¡± and SBS¡¯s ¡°8 News¡± did not broadcast the latter part of the execution and covered the knife from being seen on screen.
After the news got out, "News Desk" viewers posted words of criticism on its web page. "Kim Hyeong-wook" said, ¡°Taking the knife out, the murdering of an innocent U.S. civilian, and holding out the decapitated head... why did MBC have to actually broadcast such a brutal execution scene?¡± "Youm Sung-a" said for the past two days, there has been an ongoing controversy among broadcasting companies in the United States about airing the execution tape. Youm said that she felt angry and frustrated when she saw the Wednesday nights edition of MBC¡¯s "News Desk" on the Internet.
(Choi Seung-hyun, vaidale@chosun.com )
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