Los Angeles Times editor explains decision to run controversial photos
“We considered this very carefully,” Los Angeles Times editor Davan Maharaj says of the decision to run today’s story and photos of U.S. soldiers posing with body parts of Afghan suicide bombers. “At the end of the day, our job is to publish information that our readers need to make informed decisions. We have a particular duty to report vigorously and impartially on all aspects of the American mission in Afghanistan. On balance, in this case, we felt that the public interest here was served by publishing a limited, but representative sample of these photos, along with a story explaining the circumstances under which they were taken.”
* LAT editor explains decision to publish soldiers’ photos
* Christian Science Monitor: Did LAT make right call on photos?
* U.S. troops posed with body parts of Afghan bombers
LA Times are scum, as are most progressive shills in the state media. They’ll release videos that damage US credibility and military and civilian lives but not one regarding our own president:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/middleeast/la-na-video30-2008oct30,0,7519467.story
Is Wubbly a bot?
Remember Abu Ghraib? Those pics were pretty bad too.
War is hell.
Wubbly,
The president’s doing a great job of damaging his credibility all on his own.
Wow Wow, Wubbly!
Did you bother to even READ that link from 2008? Go find Walden and have him explain it to you.
Oh OF COURSE… when it comes to making a fellow prog traveller look bad — in this case, the President — journos agonize over issues of appropriateness and objectivity before gazing into their own navels to protect one of their own. But when it comes to a U.S. soldier the response is instantaneous — fnck ‘em.
Wow Wow, Wubbly!
Did you miss the important fact that it was a US soldier who brought those photos to the LA Times – because he was upset about the failures of leadership?
“He said the photos point to a breakdown in leadership and discipline that he believed compromised the safety of the troops.”
That’s a topic that has been getting a lot of attention among both military leaders and military reporters; it needs more exposure to the general public.