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Too pissed for words.

omg, I ditto what Jeff said. >:(

I am so upset with that!  You dont need a picture of a man dying or dead to get the point across of what the stats are for the war or what sacrifices are made by our young men and women.  My son Chris is a Lance Corporal in the USMC and this hits very close to home for me.  I guess you could say it hit a raw nerve.

Saw the theater photo only in the paper. They didn't say he was killed here. Not good.

Charlie

Still too pissed.

JeffB.
USS Curts "38 Special" (FFG-38)
USS Missouri (BB-63)

Strength for Freedom. And F_ck the rest!

Bless our troops everybody, please!

*Hold strong in your hearts the ones left behind such as the wifes and children*

As the father of one who was in Iraq, and one who will deploy next summer I don't need to be reminded of the cost of the war.  I do not oppose the war, in fact I think President Bush did the right thing in invading, but that our forces have had their hands tied behind them and are unable to effectively wage it.  I went to the wake of a Corporal who was killed in Iraq.  He was a good friend of my daughter.  I didn't need pictures of his head being hit by fragments from an RPG to feel the cost of war. 

In my humble opinion, this was not an editorial decision to show the cost of war nearly so much as an editorial decision to titilate peoples interest and sell papers due to the cost of their having lost much of their readership in the last several years.  It simply reinforces my decision to refuse to allow one of the rags back into my house.

One of the few, the proudest, a Marine DAD!

Jerry

Is there no common decency left in people these days or what??   [smiley=wtf.gif] >:(

Let me add this:

Why don't the papers show the Taliban KIA in all of their agony and show the cost of fighting against us instead of only showing our casualties in an attempt to demoralize our population and pacify us? 

Jerry

As a military family....OMG, I am so pissed!!  Time to wage a campaign to have any news organization that would publish such a sensitive photo AGAINST the family's wishes PULLED FROM ANY EMBEDDING.  They do not deserve the access they have been given.  They are not reporting the war to the people, they are capitalizing on the the terrible suffering of the families who have experienced the pain of the ultimate sacrifice. 

This is absolutely disgraceful, despicable, and disgusting. 

[smiley=bomb.gif]

Cat

catlind wrote on Sep 7^th, 2009 at 5:30pm:

They do not deserve the access they have been given.

I watched most of the Vietnam war from my Emerson B&W TV while I was growing up. The World Wars were covered quite extensively as well. It was during the first Gulf war that coverage became limited and controlled by the government.
Of course, back then, it seemed like the media was a little more objective, and not fearful of truth telling. News was not for profit then.

Nani is dead on about access. War news is nowhere near what it was in Nam and before.

It's not a healthy development.

Charlie

There are many families out there who have lost their loved ones during wars who have given, or will give, permission for such photos like this to be published.

Why did they have to negate on this one family's wish?  It seems like journalistic ethics have flown out the window.