Is Terrorist "Reality TV" Needed?

With the current glut of "Reality TV" out there, it comes as somewhat of a shock to hear someone calling for more reality on television. But Neil Cavuto's Sunday column calls upon Network TV to do so by going ahead and showing the American people the beheadings and other unholy acts they are using to blackmail the West. Up to now, networks have been blurring video, blacking out video, or using creative editting so that children may be spared and the FCC won't be tempted to levy fines. He argues these sights are necesary to remind us of the level of evil we are dealing with.

Nothing rouses a nation's anger in a war more than when we see the victims of a war -- our victims, our friends and our countrymen. They did not have to die. But they did. Why should we gloss over the fact that they did? I think it cheapens their sacrifice when we try to sanitize their loss. There's no nice way to say someone was beheaded and butchered. There's only one way to talk about it, and that's to show it. I want us to get angry, outraged, furious and incensed because this is evil in its purest and simplest form. We must see it for what it is, not cover it up for what it is not.

I am not sure I want kids seeing the inhumanity of Al-Qaeda on the evening news - they are traumatized enough by the real inhumanity we can not avoid, like the ruins of the Twin Towers. Still, I wonder whether Michael Moore would be making as much money, if people were reminded a little more often of who we are really fighting against.