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What War Looks Like
Sunday, March 23rd, 2003One thing we’ve never been shy about on this site is facilitating information flow. Even really ugly information. That’s why you got links to the WTC jumpers, and to the Danny Pearl video.
What’s odd about the war at hand (and Gulf War I, for that matter) is that we’re watching the whole thing on TV and, yet, we’ve really seen none of what makes war war. We’ve seen fantastic fireworks displays, and brave troops, and some rubble, and Geraldo making an ass of himself. But for all the embedded journalists, on-scene cameras, and firsthand reports, the images we so far associate with this war are bloodless.
The danger I think is that we develop a deluded sense of war as this sometimes bad but mostly sterile engagement where adventurous media correspondents report from the back of Humvees, the good guys are entirely good, the bad guys entirely bad, and when our troops die, they die looking like their military photos. And that makes selling the next war all the easier.
So if you can stomach it, click here. Then follow the links to al-Jazeera, Yellow Times and elsewhere.
It’s not easy. But I felt more than curious — obligated, almost — to hunt down the al-Jazeera video and watch it for myself.
I’m not making the case that the pictures and video make the war any more or less just. Watching the Iraqi soldier smile over dead American bodies frankly filled me with a momentarily desire to drop a daisy-cutter or two myself. But they do put a decidedly different face on this war than what you’re getting from Dan, Peter, Tom or Shep Smith. And I think that’s important.
I believe the American journalistic tradition is not to link to any identifiable pictures of dead people until their families have been notified. (I think an exception was made for Germans in WWII, but they were unlikely to have access to Life magazine.) Given that, it’s just too early to see graphic images; any identifiable American dead need to have their families notified first, which takes time. Luckily, those families had Al-Jazeera to get several hundred thousand hysterical families frantically downloading the video, and giving some of those families a horrific confirmation of their worst fears. Fox News ran the pictures this afternoon that didn’t show the faces, and I wouldn’t call them bloodless. I don’t think it’s any sort of conspiracy to sanitize the war; just a little common decency.
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