While We Were Sleeping

A very interesting article in the New York Observer about Iraq Reporting of the News. It is a sanitized war that fails to inform or show the cost to our citizens. That cost comes in the form of loss of life, wounds and disfigurements beyond description for our wounded veterans, huge deficits, lack of credibility and perhaps most important the loss of respect from our world neighbors.

But what can be done with reporting when it is nearly impossible to get a story? All the parties are protecting their turf. The Army doesn't want reporters roaming around unsupervised. The insurgents just want to lop off their heads. The Media itself looks to the bottom line and is unwilling to take chances. Images of war can show the heroic, the messiness of war, the good, bad and everything in between. At this point we are getting nothing.