Unseen Pictures, Untold Stories. James Rainey.
by Rainey, James; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 78Family. Publisher: Los Angeles Times, 2005ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Images -- Photographic | Iraq War (2003) | Mass media and war | Newspapers -- Objectivity | War -- Moral and ethical aspects | War casualties | War photographyDDC classification: 050 Summary: "The young soldier died like so many others, ambushed while on patrol in Baghdad. Medics rushed him to a field hospital, but couldn't get his heart beating again. What set Army Spc. Travis Babbitt's last moments in Iraq apart was that he confronted them in front of a journalist's camera. An Associated Press photograph of the mortally wounded Babbitt remains a rarity--one of a handful of pictures of dead or dying American service members to be published in this country since the start of the Iraq war more than two years ago. A review of six prominent U.S. newspapers and the nation's two most popular newsmagazines during a recent six-month period [May 2005] found almost no pictures from the war zone of Americans killed in action." (LOS ANGELES TIMES) The author maintains that readers get an "obscured view of the cost of war" because so "few photos of American dead and wounded" are printed in U.S. newspapers and magazines.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Unseen Pictures, Untold Stories, May 21, 2005; pp. A1+.
"The young soldier died like so many others, ambushed while on patrol in Baghdad. Medics rushed him to a field hospital, but couldn't get his heart beating again. What set Army Spc. Travis Babbitt's last moments in Iraq apart was that he confronted them in front of a journalist's camera. An Associated Press photograph of the mortally wounded Babbitt remains a rarity--one of a handful of pictures of dead or dying American service members to be published in this country since the start of the Iraq war more than two years ago. A review of six prominent U.S. newspapers and the nation's two most popular newsmagazines during a recent six-month period [May 2005] found almost no pictures from the war zone of Americans killed in action." (LOS ANGELES TIMES) The author maintains that readers get an "obscured view of the cost of war" because so "few photos of American dead and wounded" are printed in U.S. newspapers and magazines.
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