Media Want More Photos of Dead GIs

NewsMax ^ | May 23, 2005 | Carl Limbacher

[NerdDad]

I read the first 99 replies to this thread and have not seen this so I'll throw this out.

The embed program is a failure. The military commanders need to be instructed to inform all media types that they are on their own.

Our soldiers are too valuable to be used as the personal cab drivers and body guards for these ghouls who are HOPING to be attacked so they can get some good pictures. It is inevitable that one of these traitors will sell out a squad of soldiers to the terrorists for the exclusive media rights.

"Boys, it's a free country now. But it's a dangerous place. You're welcome to stay -- but you're on your own. Your presence is not welcome among our troops. You will be arrested as enemy combatants and sent to Gitmo if you are encountered by our soldiers. Now, get the hell out of my AO."

[mtntop3]

Thanks.

[jan in Colorado]

MSM enemy from within ping!

How about the 3,000 AMERICANS that were murdered on 9/11/01?

The MSM can't bring themselves to show those innocent civilians who died!

[USF]

The MSM can't bring themselves to show those innocent civilians who died!

Thanks for the ping Jan. Their hypocrisy will never cease to amaze me...

[Gator113]

I completely agree.

[stockpirate]

I am willing to bet that if someone started showing the photo's of dead journalists the media would have a chenge of heart.

Remember when the reporter for the WSJ was killed, we didn't see reporters at the dead man's house asking his wife how she feels knowing that her husband was killed in an unjust war.

[wolficatZ]

***Bump***

 

"During World War II, the Roosevelt administration strictly prohibited news outlets from printing photos of dead U.S. soldiers.."

 

Not quite true.

 

Anyone who has studied in depth the history of U.S. photography and film in WWII would know about the first infamous photo of American war dead that was shown in Life magazine..

 

"In September 1943, the military released the first photographs of dead American soldiers. George Strock's images of corpses on Buna Beach, New Guinea, appeared in Life, the largest- circulation picture magazine. The powerful pictures shocked some readers, but a greater number approved of the policy.

 

The Washington Post argued that the pictures "can help us to understand something of what has been sacrificed for the victories we have won." Images of dead soldiers appeared regularly after that. All were as anonymous as they could be made to be. Efforts were made to crop the photos or obscure the victims' faces, name tags and unit insignia.

 

The caption to Strock's Buna Beach photo‹"Three dead Americans lie on the beach at Buna" told Life's readers that they did not need to know the names of the dead in order to appreciate what they had done."

 

http://history.acusd.edu/gen/WW2Timeline/erniepyle3.html

 

 

 

new policy released image of dead on Buna Beach, 1942 photo by George Strock/Life

 

And then films like "With the Marines at Tarawa", released in 1944, sparked outrage for it's extremely graphic 16mm color imagery of Marine dead on the beach at Betio..I could post some of those..but they are quite graphic.

 

From American dead stripped of boots and clothing after the Battle of Kasserine by Arab looters; to American dead being stuffed in body bags in France, to actual film scenes of Americans being shot while landing at New Britain, Omaha Beach and countless other scenes..even quite graphic imagery of  a US soldier unloading a .45 into a mortally wounded Japanese soldier to finish him off   (See the recent documentary "Hell in the Pacific")

 

Robert Capa took many quite graphic photos that were printed in Life, even more tragic because some were taken just a few days before the German surrender in the Battle of Liepzig, which we had to withdraw from and hand over to the Soviets:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 19 year old American soldier killed by Nazi sniper, Leipzig, April 18, 1945

   Robert Capa/Life Magazine

 

   M4 Sherman, surrounded by dead and dismembered crew members, knocked out by Hitler Youth

  with Panzerfaust, Leipzig, April 1945

 

 

The difference with today's subversive news media is that they want to use this sort of imagery to undermine the war effort..

 

 

 

 

 

[longfellow]

You are right, and Hollywood is doing the same.