US Hostage Beheaded by Iraqis

[Blog]

Interesting, he's bigger than Paris Hilton, this week anyway.

Nick Berg is the new number one search term on the Lycos Search engine over the past 24 hours. The top 10 search requests Web users are specifically searching for regarding Nick Berg are:

1. Nick Berg video
2. Nick Berg Beheading
3. Nick Berg and Iraq
4. Nick Berg Execution
5. Nick Berg Beheading Video
6. Nick Berg Killing
7. Nick Berg murder
8. Nick Berg assassination
9. Nick Berg decapitation video
10. Execution of Nick Berg.


The video showing the beheading of U.S. captive Nick Berg, combined with the multitude of search activity for the War in Iraq and searches for the Iraqi prisoners of war, is generating 12 times more searches than the #2 search term, Paris Hilton.

http://50.lycos.com

[Azyael]

Originally posted by Isaviel
The thing that bugs me even MORE is that they are actually offering you to view the video on CNN.

GAH!

I'm glad they have. No news article is ever going to truly describe this incident as well as seeing the video can.

[Gilgamar]

While I don't want to alter the point of this thread I do want to state that I have seen this video and it is NOT something that needs to be broadcast to everyone in America.

While I am all for freedom of the press and I do believe that people have a right to know about what is going on, there are some things that will only fuel anger and hatred in a situation. A video like this is one of those things. America is a land of vices, granted. but it is also a land of opportunity, acceptance (for the most part) and generally we act in ways to make life better for the majority. When shit happens we unite to fix it.

Broadcasting this video to everyone would only fuel those traits that we as a society do not need guiding our judgements. There are extremists here in the US. It is beheading videos like this that get non-extremist Muslims drug down dirt roads tied to racist's trucks. Or whatever else stupid shit they can come up with.

You can't underestimate the ability for hate to fuel more hatred.

[Kianier]

Elidia, thank you. I believe you are right...
Damn those fucking people.