{"id":875,"date":"2004-04-22T15:55:54","date_gmt":"2004-04-22T19:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2004\/04\/hide_the_pictures\/"},"modified":"2004-04-22T15:55:54","modified_gmt":"2004-04-22T19:55:54","slug":"hide_the_pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2004\/04\/hide_the_pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Hide the Pictures"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s almost like 1942<\/a>, all over again:<\/p>\n

A military contractor has fired Tami Silicio, a Kuwait-based cargo worker whose photograph of flag-draped coffins of fallen U.S. soldiers was published in Sunday’s edition of The Seattle Times.
\nSilicio was let go yesterday for violating U.S. government and company regulations, said William Silva, president of Maytag Aircraft, the contractor that employed Silicio at Kuwait International Airport.
\n. . .
\nHer photograph, taken earlier this month, shows more than 20 flag-draped coffins in a cargo plane about to depart from Kuwait. Since 1991, the Pentagon has banned the media from taking pictures of caskets being returned to the United States.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The picture at issue is currently displayed at the above link. Recall that much of World War II passed before the government allowed a single picture showing dead American soldiers to be shown.
\nMeanwhile, across the pond<\/a> there’s controversy regarding a photo showed in a CBS broadcast on the Princess Diana accident<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Lord Spencer, the brother of Princess Diana, today said that he was “shocked and sickened” by the broadcasting of images of his dying sister on US television last night.
\nGrainy black and white photocopies of photographs showed the Princess of Wales being treated by a doctor as she lay slumped in the back of the car in which she was fatally injured in a crash in Paris in August 1997.
\nThe images, in which the dying princess has her eyes closed, were aired for around 10 seconds on US network CBS’s 48 Hours Investigates<\/i> programme.
\n. . .
\nThe photographs were copied from a 6,000-page report of a French investigation into the crash. It was the first time that they had been shown in public.
\nThey were taken moments after the crash, which happened in a tunnel at Pont l’Alma, by photographers who had pursed the car that the princess had been travelling in. Police had seized the film at the scene.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I haven’t seen the Princess Diana photographs yet, but generally I’m in favor of showing more of the graphic realism of war, accidents, and crime than the mainstream media tends to show. I don’t know how much of a benefit we receive in shielding ourselves from reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s almost like 1942, all over again: A military contractor has fired Tami Silicio, a Kuwait-based cargo worker whose photograph of flag-draped coffins of fallen U.S. soldiers was published in Sunday’s edition of The Seattle Times. Silicio was let go yesterday for violating U.S. government and company regulations, said William Silva, president of Maytag Aircraft, […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-875","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}