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PHOTO FINISH

In 'my' wars, the big II, Korea (a police action) and Viet Nam, it seems to me, that there were many many photos and newsreel footage showing US casualties as well as the destruction and suffering of war. This is my memory from the daily newspaper, movie newsreels, television coverage and magazines, especially.

In this war, the censorship has been notable--no coffins, wounded brought home at night, and so on.

I believe that the war resistance of the Viet Nam period was largely because of the graphic coverage. Apparently our government agrees with me as they are not showing anything inflammatory now. Shits that they are.

Today, our own LA Times covers this story about the stories with some graphic evidence of their own. Watch the power of the media dying in these numbers.

In the same issue, another story about a new news organization shows that what the big multi-corporate 'news' organizations are afraid or unwilling to do is now taken up by a new news organization: Keeping an Eye on the World's Tragedies.