] "There is a feeling in our newsroom that you need to be ] as realistic as possible and carry the images of war and ] the effect that war has on people," he says. "If you are ] in a war, your population shouldn't just eat their dinner ] and watch sanitized images on TV and video games produced ] by the technological whizzes in the Pentagon and say, ] 'This is war.' No. You really need to show every family ] what your men and women are going through. That's ] important because the families [of dead soldiers] are ] going to be the only ones who see those gruesome images ] when they get the bodies. How about the rest of the ] American population? How are they going to appreciate ] their sacrifices? . . . If you leave it to politicians, ] you won't see anything." I like Al-Jazeera.. They piss off _everyone_.. In the Line of Fire (washingtonpost.com) |