They wanted to create indignation over the horror — children forced to hunt one another with arrows, swords, lances — while staging the violence in the most anodyne manner possible to achieve a PG-13 rating.
Some stories are clearly intended to create indignation: "Polish migrants living in Britain claiming £21m in benefits for children left behind" and "Fears for NHS and schools as 1,000 Polish children are born EVERY month" are examples.
Kevin Rudd has created a storm of indignation with his 'lurch to the right'harshestest policy ever', 'Tampa moment', a policy designed to do not much more than steal Tony Abbott's line about stopping the boats.
But we were determined to take the opportunity to create some righteous indignation when the New York Times broke the story in 2010, describing the mass media's discomfort with the discussion of female sexual satisfaction.
Billy Russell, as the troops called him, created a firestorm of public indignation back home by revealing inadequate equipment, scandalous treatment of the wounded, especially when they were repatriated – does this sound familiar?
Television pictures created a wave of anger and indignation.
The images from the protests, broadcasted live by the mainstream media outlets, and all the reports of the police's ultraviolence that were spread around the internet created an atmosphere of shock and indignation.
"It's true the anti-slavery movement had to have leaders, but at the same time it was founded on the moral indignation of common folks, who created circumstances for leaders to spring up".
The upshot of it all, then, has been that this project, aimed at creating unity, has fomented indignation, fury and suspicion, forging a split between communities where previously there was none.
First, bloggers the world over have been invaluable in offering perspective, insight, indignation and indeed new information that has held the world's attention and created pressure for constructive change in political as well as corporate matters.
