by Helen Thomas, Hearst White House columnist
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May 7, 2008
Newspaper Criticized For Publishing Photo
WASHINGTON — Some readers resented The Washington Post for publishing an Associated Press photograph of a critically wounded Iraqi child being lifted from the rubble of his home in Baghdad’s Sadr City “after a U.S. airstrike.”
Two-year-old Ali Hussein later died in a hospital.
As the saying goes, the picture was worth a thousand words because it showed the true horrors of this war.
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Amen to the words of Helen Thomas. The media’s job is suppose to be to give the public the facts, and let the public decide. It is not necessarily the job of the media to pre-censor the facts via omission,
Truth has no masks or faces, it’s just it is. To cover up the truth we need to do hundred and one facials and dramas.