The fact that American television refuses to air the images because they're too graphic, too disturbing -- this is what I find disturbing.
It's NEWS. It HAPPENED. The 600 dead Americans REALLY DIED. Have we seen their caskets come home? No. The American public is being shielded from the reality of this catastrophe, like children who must be protected from R rated movies.
This is colossal irresponsibility on the part of those whom we are supposed to trust to show us what is happening in the world. We see dead Iraqi bodies, blown apart, blood everywhere -- somehow this is suitable for airing. But they won't show us the devastating reality of what has happened to Americans, they won't show us our own people's corpses. I'm sorry -- this is not about prurience, this is not about protecting our sensitivities -- this is about protecting the interests of the Bush Administration.
This is APPALLING policy.