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Sunday, September 11, 2005

Bush, FEMA, government censorship continueth

Reuters' Deborah Zabarenko: Media groups: FEMA censoring death:

When U.S. officials asked the media not to take pictures of those killed by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, they were censoring a key part of the disaster story, free speech watchdogs said on Wednesday.

The move by the Federal Emergency Management Agency is in line with the Bush administration's ban on images of flag-draped U.S. military coffins returning from the Iraq war, media monitors said in separate telephone interviews.

"It's impossible for me to imagine how you report a story whose subject is death without allowing the public to see images of the subject of the story," said Larry Siems of the PEN American Center, an authors' group that defends free expression.

U.S. newspapers, television outlets, and Web sites have featured pictures of shrouded corpses and makeshift graves in New Orleans.

I will say this; I've seen more dead bodies in print since Katrina than in a long time. And to my knowledge I have only seen them in newspapers, not on television.

Also read the second page of the article, and the bit about "international equity," and shouldn't U.S. journalists show death and destruction elsewhere just the same as showing death and destruction in the U.S.?

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