Website review: People Can Handle the Truth Abou...
suzannereed discovered this in News(General)
•3 reviews since May 12, 2008
news, journalism, iraq
•commondreams.org/archive/2008/05/09/8843/
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suzannereed discovered 2 months ago- From the page: "Published on Friday, May 9, 2008 by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer People Can Handle the Truth About War by Helen Thomas Some readers resented The Washington Post for publishing an Associated Press photograph of a critically wounded Iraqi child being lifted from the rubble of his home in Baghdad's Sadr City "after a U.S. airstrike." Two-year-old Ali Hussein later died in a hospital. As the saying goes, the picture was worth a thousand words because it showed the true horrors of this war. Neither side is immune from killing Iraqi civilians. But Americans should be aware of their own responsibility for inflicting death and pain on the innocent. The Post's ombudsman, Deborah Howell, said about 20 readers complained about the photo, while a few readers praised The Post for publishing the stark picture on Page 1. Some mothers said they were offended that their children might see the picture, though one wonders whether their youngsters watch television and play with violent videos in a pretend world. From the start of the unprovoked U.S. "shock and awe" invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the government tried to bar the news media from photographing flag-draped coffins of American soldiers returning from Iraq. A Freedom of Information lawsuit forced the government to release pictures of returning coffins. Howell said some readers felt the photo of the Iraqi boy was "an anti-war statement; some thought it was in poor taste." Well, so is war. Howell said her boss, Executive Editor Len Downie, "is cautious about such photos." "We have seldom been able to show the human impact of the fighting on Iraqis," Downie was quoted as saying. "We decided this was a rare instance in which we had a powerful image with which to do so." It's unclear to me why this was deemed to be "rare." After five years of war, there is finally one photo that is supposed to say it all?" [more] The amazing Helen Thomas boils it down to understandable concepts, as usual. Bless her for her unflinching eye.
- BettyJoBradley rated 2 months ago
- A discussion about printing or not printing controversial pictures of war. From the page: "[The Washington Post's ombudsman Deborah] Howell said some readers felt the photo of the Iraqi boy was 'an anti-war statement; some thought it was in poor taste.' Well, so is war."
