How about these!!
Mere words cannot erase these images.
And I dont hear the Arab or Muslim world apologizing to us for these acts, either, I hear them rejoicing over it!
Posted on 05/23/2005 10:21:27 AM PDT by Kaslin
American photojournalists and their editors are frustrated that they can't show more photos of U.S. soldiers dying in Iraq, saying that the nation isn't getting an accurate picture of the horrors of war.
In a comprehensive report on Saturday, the Los Angeles Times noted:
"A review of six prominent U.S. newspapers and the nation's two most popular newsmagazines during a recent six-month period found almost no pictures from the war zone of Americans killed in action."
The paper explained:
"Many photographers and editors believe they are delivering Americans an incomplete portrait of the violence that has killed 1,797 U.S. service members and their Western allies and wounded 12,516 Americans."
During World War II, the Roosevelt administration strictly prohibited news outlets from printing photos of dead U.S. soldiers because of the obvious blow it would be to American morale. And the press willingly complied.
The same sensibility largely prevailed during Korea, Vietnam and the First Gulf War.
But with many in today's media opposed to the Iraq war, some say it's time to change the rules.
"There can be horrible images, but war is horrible and we need to understand that," veteran war photographer Chris Hondros told the Times. "I think if we are going to start a war, we ought to be willing to show the consequences of that war."
Pim Van Hemmen, assistant managing editor for photography at the Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., agreed, telling the Times:
"Writing in a headline that 1,500 Americans have died doesn't give you nearly the impact of showing one serviceman who is dead."
By censoring the photos of GI's as they lay dying, Van Hemmen said, "We in the news business are not doing a very good job of showing our readers what has really happened over there."
Steve Stroud, deputy director of photography at the Los Angeles Times, also thinks the public needs to see more photos of dead American soldiers.
"I feel we still aren't seeing the kind of pictures we need to see to tell the American people about this war and the costs of the war," he explained.
Michele McNally, New York Times director of photography, concurred, observing: "War kills men, women and children, and we would be remiss if we couldn't in some way show that this is what happens in war . . . It's our responsibility to bear witness to these events."
Media support for showing more American bloodshed comes despite the risk that soldiers' families may consider the display a horrible violation of privacy.
Deirdre Sargent, whose husband was deployed to Iraq, recently complained to editors of the News Tribune of Tacoma, Wash., after the paper printed a photo of a dying GI that she said left her "shaking and in tears for hours."
"It was tacky, unprofessional and completely unnecessary," Sargent said.
Executive Editor Dave Zeeck told the Times that he tried to address the complaints in an essay published on Page 2 of the main news section. He explained to readers that he believed the picture, taken by John Moore of the Associated Press, epitomized the sacrifice of the American soldier.
"We not only have the right, but the responsibility to run such photos," Zeeck told the Times.
MSNBC.com posted the same photo to their website, prompting complaints from the dying soldier's family.
"At first we thought it was a really iconic photo of the terrible violence going on in Iraq," MSNBC.com editor in chief Dean Wright told the Times.
But when it turned out the soldier could be identified, Wright took the photo down, saying, "We thought it was too horrific, because it was more personalized then."
MSM = Terrorists
"Media want more photos of dead GIs."
In that case Our troops had better watch their backs. The media is no different from the vulture that said"Patience, HELL! I'm gonna kill something." We have no reason whatsoever to doubt that the MSM shares the buzzard's sentiments.
That's about the only thing they got right.
Bullshit.
Bill Mauldin, a CARTOONIST, for Pete's sake, didn't draw a single American soldier dead in his cartoons if I recall correctly.
But he managed to show the danger, difficulty, heroism and misery of the American soldiers who slogged their way through North Africa, Sicily, Italy, France and Germany.
Mauldin did his witnessing in the medium available to him, and in which he was superbly skilled. He showed the obvious weariness in the eyes of Willie and Joe, the impossibility of keeping dry in a foxhole in the rain, and so on.
If you want a challenge, Michele, go and do likewise. You don't have to show dead bodies.
How about these!!
Mere words cannot erase these images.
And I dont hear the Arab or Muslim world apologizing to us for these acts, either, I hear them rejoicing over it!
Better yet, follow in the footsteps of a truly great journalist - Ernie Pyle.
You don't have the guts to do that, do you, Michele.
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I think you're right. Look what we did to the Japanese. There would be the genteel people in this country who would cry in fear and whine for peace at any cost at the sight of dead young American. I like to think as you do that there is still that rough and ready streak in us that we won the frontier with.
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I agree with you Daybreak. Those of us who were silent then (well, I was just a kid) will never be silent again and will always stand up for our troops, no matter what bs they want to try and have us believe. We're exposing them as much as we can, and their horrible propaganda, and we, thankfully, have the internet.
As the wife of a U.S. Marine and the daughter of a Vietnam KIA, (and a right wing journalist) I am so sickened by these jackals and their agenda. Just reading the article made my blood pressure rise...
"It was tacky, unprofessional and completely unnecessary," Sargent said.
MSNBC.com posted the same photo to their website, prompting complaints from the dying soldier's family.
Looks like the last time MSNBC will cross the screen in this household until they apologize.
Ghouls.
It's forums like FR that let us know what the msm is up to before they do it now. Back then, it was a done deal and they just rolled it over us. I say never again and most especially this one. This one just set my hair on fire.
This desire of the msm just cannot stand.
I'll bring the beer.
Thanks.
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