Show it like it is

When Middle East TV station al-Arabiya was doing a story just now on the apparent decision by the CIA to ban waterboarding, the story was accompanied by video footage of a person being waterboarded, or at least one version thereof. If the American media ran similar footage during their coverage, it might well bring home to people that what's being talked about is not just "a dunk in the water." Of course they'd also be accused of being treasonous for showing what the Waterboarder-in-Chief has been up to. All amid the irony that it's al-Arabiya that's in the backward part of the world.