Iraq Redux: FEMA Blocks Photos of Katrina Dead(September 08, 2005) Fast Forward to Ike??

[tannybogus]

September 08, 2005
Iraq Redux: FEMA Blocks Photos of Katrina Dead
New Orleans - The US government agency leading the rescue efforts after Hurricane Katrina said on Tuesday it does not want the news media to take photographs of the dead as they are recovered from the flooded New Orleans area.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency, heavily criticized for its slow response to the devastation caused by the hurricane, rejected requests from journalists to accompany rescue boats as they went out to search for storm victims.
An agency spokeswoman said space was needed on the rescue boats and 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 said in an e-mailed response to a Reuters inquiry.
The Bush administration also has prevented the news media from photographing flag-draped caskets of US soldiers killed in Iraq, which has sparked criticism that the government is trying to block images that put the war in a bad light.

~Remember hearing how Russian Communist officials would remove (names and) photos from newspaper archives and encyclopedias of people who fell out of their Party's favor? America's neo-cons are one-up on those old Stalinists: they forbid photos of potentially embarrassing events from being taken in the first place.

http://www.spitting-image.net/archives/003729.html

There have been arguments about what is going on after Ike. i have no idea. This happened after Katrina.