We all know that the Bush Administration hasn't wanted to show all those US flag-draped coffins arriving back in America from Iraq, but it would seem, according to this piece in the IHT that sanitizing view of the Iraq War has gone much further:
"The case of a freelance photographer in Iraq who was barred from covering the U.S. Marine Corps after he posted photos on the Internet of several dead marines has underscored what some journalists say is a growing effort by the U.S. military to control graphic images from the war.
The photographer, Zoriah Miller, who took images of marines killed in a suicide attack in Anbar Province on June 26 and posted them on his Web site, was subsequently forbidden to work in corps-controlled areas of the country. Major General John Kelly, the marine commander in Iraq, is now seeking to have Miller barred from all U.S. military facilities throughout the world. Miller has since left Iraq.
If the conflict in Vietnam was notable for open access given to journalists - too much, many critics said, as the war played out nightly in bloody newscasts - the Iraq war may mark an opposite extreme: After five years and more than 4,000 U.S. combat deaths, searches and interviews turned up fewer than a half-dozen graphic photographs of dead U.S. soldiers."
"The case of a freelance photographer in Iraq who was barred from covering the U.S. Marine Corps after he posted photos on the Internet of several dead marines has underscored what some journalists say is a growing effort by the U.S. military to control graphic images from the war.
The photographer, Zoriah Miller, who took images of marines killed in a suicide attack in Anbar Province on June 26 and posted them on his Web site, was subsequently forbidden to work in corps-controlled areas of the country. Major General John Kelly, the marine commander in Iraq, is now seeking to have Miller barred from all U.S. military facilities throughout the world. Miller has since left Iraq.
If the conflict in Vietnam was notable for open access given to journalists - too much, many critics said, as the war played out nightly in bloody newscasts - the Iraq war may mark an opposite extreme: After five years and more than 4,000 U.S. combat deaths, searches and interviews turned up fewer than a half-dozen graphic photographs of dead U.S. soldiers."
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