Eric Boehlert Provides Some Perspective

In a letter to Medianews:

From ERIC BOEHLERT:
It's sure interesting that so many media players stayed away from the images of POW's in Iraq, out of sensitivity to their families. Whilebnoble, where was that hand-holding approach when the Black Hawks wentbdown in Mogadishu? Virtually all those same news outlets ran pictures ofb a bloated U.S. G.I. corpse being dragged through the streets. And no, his family had not yet been notified. My hunch is if the Clinton administration had urged the press to stay away from a news image, theb way Rumsfeld did on Sunday, journalists would have laughed. Wonder what's changed.