Sorry guys, but with all due respect, I call this a very bad move on the part of the US Government - and for two main reasons really.
Number 1 - How do you stop someone from taking photos? Many have already been taken - what kind of restrictive action will be taken against anyone who publishes them?
Number 2 - I live and work in on of the countries affected by the earthquake and tsunamis and am very concerned how this can be manipulated and how it will play out in the local media here.
Where is the similar "respect" for the victims of the tsunami and how many of you saw the photos of the dead strewn along the beaches in Thailand?
Think of all the 9/11 stuff we never got to see.
A lot of it simply makes it easier to forget and sanitize. People need to see atrocities. ALL the details.
A natural disaster's a little more refined, but I still say show all of it.
Why not show it all? The government shouldn't say what's ok and what's not.
Privately, I would not want photos of my loved ones splashed in bloated splendar across the pages of the Washington Post or the internet.
Publicly, the more the merrier. Show the bodies falling out the towers. Show the bodies floating down Canal street, the cops looting Wal-Mart and the dead elderly folks in their wheelchairs.
And those photos will keep being published until the MSM is convinced that the locals truly are to blame for this f***-up. Then the photos will stop.