Journalist Groups Protest FEMA Ban on Photos of Dead

[gatorboy]

http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001055768

NEW YORK Forced to defend what some critics consider its slow response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said on Tuesday it does not want the news media to take photographs of the dead as they are recovered from New Orleans.

FEMA, which is leading the rescue efforts, rejected requests from journalists to accompany rescue boats as they went out to search for storm victims, Reuters reported.

A FEMA spokeswoman told the wire service that space was needed on the rescue boats and assured Reuters that "the recovery of the victims is being treated with dignity and the utmost respect."

"We have requested that no photographs of the deceased be made by the media," the spokeswoman told Reuters via e-mail.
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[eleny]

1. Btw...

After you posted that article night before last about Parker, the head of the Corp of Engineers, I sent it to Mike Malloy and gave you props. He read it on the air last night.

[gatorboy]

2. Really? Cool beans! :D

I'm glad the stuff is getting out there! :hi:

[txindy]

3. So much for that story about the ban being untrue and unsubstantiated

:eyes:

[gatorboy]

5. I have to admit, in the beginning, I did wonder....

So now the same guys that were selling the death of 9/11 like a holiday special are now being dignified? :eyes:

[txindy]

6. Yep, and it's like their twisting themselves into knots over photos

The photos from Abu Ghraib that they don't want shown because, suddenly, they don't want to cause the victims any more pain.

And I didn't mean that you, specifically, didn't believe the story. :hi: I just remember at least one thread questioning the whole idea even though it was documented by the AP on Yahoo and sounds exactly like something Junior would have ordered. Sometimes 'loathsome' and 'outrageous' does not equal 'untrue', not with this administration, anyway.

[Eric J in MN]

4. Thanks. I added this to SpeakSpeak News after

seeing your post.

[newswolf56]

7. In the great tradition of Josef Goebbels:

like genocide in the Warsaw Ghetto or unspeakable atrocities in Russia -- if there is no photographic evidence, then it didn't happen.

Make no mistake: Bush is taking off his gloves, moving ever closer to dropping all pretense of being anything but a fascist tyrant.