rawstory.com — When the Bush administration began enforcing a controversial policy banning photographs of military caskets returning from Iraq, the move provoked outrage -- and now, a film -- from actor John Cusack, who calls the media ban "one of the most cowardly political acts" of his lifetime.
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Closed AccountDec 6, 2007
Their duty as news gatherers begins when they report what they are told to report by their masters,it ends with being fired if they step out of line..To get where they are,these reporters have been groomed and trained to follow orders, work within the system, and do as they are told...they are not going to tell the American people what we need to know...It simply won't happen. Their duty is to the corporation who pays their salary,not to the people of this country.
acceptab1eunameDec 6, 2007
Maybe it's not about right or left...just about how some people are douches?
blacklabelsarDec 6, 2007
Bingo!
leesoongDec 7, 2007
I believe the ban was correct - to protect the families that come to receive the bodies and protect their funeral services from journalists and the mean nasty protesters who have the audacity to picket a funeral while the family cries at the graveside.There is some time for respect, honor the fallen.
Closed AccountDec 7, 2007
I'm still here. I guess you can take your report and shove it up your ass.
boombyeDec 7, 2007
They should move to France. That would be irony.
lolo2007Mar 9, 2008
"What is “the Dover Ban?” Instituted by the Department of Defense, not Congress, this ban prohibits civilians from taking photographs of deceased soldiers. Prohibitions like the Dover Ban have been part of U.S. military history since the camera’s introduction. Since 1991, each U.S. president has employed the Dover Ban. President George H.W. Bush used the Dover Ban in the first Iraq war, and it continued, with some exceptions, during the Clinton administration. President George W. Bush did not use the Dover Ban in the military conflict of 2001 in Afghanistan, but instituted it in the current Iraq war."<a class="user" href="http://download.paramegsoft.com/">http://download.paramegsoft.com/</a><a class="user" href="http://dir.paramegsoft.com/">http://dir.paramegsoft.com/</a><a class="user" href="http://download.paramegsoft.com/sitemap.html">http://download.paramegsoft.com/sitemap.html</a>