This is about the sorriest thing that the US media has ever done. Congrats, AP you just set a new standerd for slime. The Marine's father asked AP not to air the photo but the scumbags did it anyway. Time to throw the media out of the war zone: They should have never been allowed to go there to begin with.
Defense Secretary Robert Gates is objecting “in the strongest terms” to an Associated Press decision to transmit a photograph showing a mortally wounded 21-year-old Marine in his final moments of life, calling the decision “appalling” and a breach of “common decency.”
The AP reported that the Marine’s father had asked – in an interview and in a follow-up phone call — that the image, taken by an embedded photographer, not be published.
The AP reported in a story that it decided to make the image public anyway because it “conveys the grimness of war and the sacrifice of young men and women fighting it.”
The photo shows Lance Cpl. Joshua M. Bernard of New Portland, Maine, who was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade in a Taliban ambush Aug. 14 in Helmand province of southern Afghanistan, according to The AP.
I googled his name and saw the image that was printed. For a news publication to print a picture of a soldier like this for everyone to see is absolutely appalling.
No service man should ever be portrayed is such a manner. Ever!
And for the AP to not honor the fathers wishes concerning the photo only goes to prove the type of people that are running our news outlets. Who ever had the final word concerning his picture should be immediately fired from their position.
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I don't really see anything wrong with it being published, although I think the repercussions will be bad for the war effort and the country. The least the AP should've done is waited a few years before releasing it. I don't blame the parents for being upset.
You don't see anything wrong with the press publishing pictures of a fatally wounded soldier, with large parts of his lower limbs missing, blood on the ground and his clothes, and in his last minutes of life breathing his last breaths of air?
Do you have kids? If so what would you think if someone snapped and published a picture of your child, how ever old, right after they were fatally shot and maimed on the streets but still struggling for life while a by stander attempted to keep him/her alive. Your child is screaming in pain and anguish with blood soaked clothes taking his or her last few breaths.
You would be fine with this?
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"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency........... Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president."
You don't see anything wrong with the press publishing pictures of a fatally wounded soldier, with large parts of his lower limbs missing, blood on the ground and his clothes, and in his last minutes of life breathing his last breaths of air?
Do you have kids? If so what would you think if someone snapped and published a picture of your child, how ever old, right after they were fatally shot and maimed on the streets but still struggling for life while a by stander attempted to keep him/her alive. Your child is screaming in pain and anguish with blood soaked clothes taking his or her last few breaths.
You would be fine with this?
I think Americans have a right to see our military campaigns in pictures and other media.
If you don't have kids substitute a brother, sister, mother or father.
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"The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency........... Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president."
If you don't have kids substitute a brother, sister, mother or father.
No, I wouldn't care. What gets me is the event, not the pictures of it. By the time they're published, it's too late to do anything about it.
I don't enjoy seeing dying American soldiers. The Juba sniper vids on YouTube left me nauseous for several days after a few minutes. But we need to know what's going on over there. If not for our own education, for the sake of historical accuracy.
AP Shows Photo of Dying Marine
