E&P: Press Photos Fail To Show True Picture of War

[Hissyspit]

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000929755

Press Photos Fail to Show True Picture of War

By Greg Mitchell

NEW YORK A remarkable survey by the Los Angeles Times of six leading newspapers and two newsmagazines during a recent six-month period found almost no pictures from Iraq of Americans killed in action. And the publications ran only 44 photos of the wounded.

"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 West allies and wounded 12,516 Americans," the Times' James Rainey concluded.

Pim Van Hemmen, assistant managing editor for photography at The Star-Ledger in Newark, N.J., told Rainey, "We in the news business are not doing a very good job of showing our readers what has really happened over there."

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"There can be horrible images, but war is horrible and we need to understand that," Chris Hondros, a veteran war photographer, told Rainey. "I think if we are going to start a war, we ought to be willing to show the consequences of that war."

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[jojo54]

1. It's a damn shame that the rest of the MSM won't heed

what this Chris Hondros said:

"I think if we are going to start a war, we ought to be willing to show the consequences of that war."

It's cut and paste with the whore media.