Over at the Huffington Post today, Michael Shaw posted an article entitled: "Reading the Pictures: Have We Just Seen the last combat injury in Iraq?" I've pasted it here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
The US military has created even harsher restrictions regarding photojournalists capturing images of US servicemen/women in combat.
Written permission from the people in the image is required if the people can be identified in the image.
This is yet another stranglehold on preventing American citizens from seeing the harshness and reality of war. Not that the major news service have shown any evidence of actual injury and harm.
The post's author, Michael Shaw, questions whether being a serviceman/woman and having photojournalists embedded in your unit violates the serviceman/woman's right to privacy. He argues that serving in the U.S. military with journalists covering the war does waive an individual's right to privacy. It makes sense to me. U.S. servicemen/women represent the United States, they are not there on individual/personal matters. We, as citizens, have an abolute right to see the images and horror of what is happening.
The military's disneyification of the war continues at our peril.