August 24, 2005

The horror of Iraq

Link: Salon.com News | Iraq: The unseen war.

The photographs in this piece by Gary Kamiya are devastating.  I think they should be shown on the evening news--with very prominent prior warnings for kids.

<blockquote>In May 2005, the Los Angeles Times surveyed six major newspapers and the nation's two leading newsmagazines, and found that over a six-month period, no images of dead American troops appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Time or Newsweek. A single image of a covered body of a slain American ran in the Seattle Times. There were also comparatively few images of wounded Americans. The publications surveyed tended to run more images of dead or wounded Iraqis, but they have hardly been depicted in large numbers either.</blockquote>

Posted by Anupam Chander on August 24, 2005 at 01:16 PM in Current Affairs | Permalink