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krater42@gmail.com kirjoitti:

Ms Jacobson, is a cold heart person. Not a very respectful person of others feeling. I would think its all about Ms Jacobson and no one else matters. This is why the general public holds to the view that all press people are whores, selling their souls for the big one. May the fleas of a 1,000 camels invest their arm pits from here on out.

mark_roberts kirjoitti:

hey krater42@gmail.com. have you lost your mind? What did you not like about Mrs Jacobson picture? That the subject is based on reality? You have to learn to take the good and the bad to hopefully learn a lesson and not repeat the same mistakes again. Unlike your cozy couch, Mrs Jacobson risks her life every day that she is reporting and photographing the events in the war so that the public has a better understanding of the consequences of those decisions made by politicians, you know, the ones that so trivially you support or feel shouldn't be spared a second thought. So before you come here

us troop supporter kirjoitti:

What Mrs. Jacobson did was to dishonor the life of this Marine, LCpl Bernard with that shot of him lying there wounded. It is sensationalism, nothing more, nothing less to have published that photo after this Marine died!

brat kirjoitti:

The decision to run that picture of Lance Cpl Bernard was made all the way up the management ladder from this photographer taking this picture.

Maybe her original picture was part of a series, but the father of this Marine, and the Secretary of Defence asked not once, but twice, that AP not use this specific picture.

THAT'S the part I have issue with. The family is already grieving. Are we so inhumane that we disregard that?

Gunner2444 kirjoitti:

The media is in the war zone because they are protected by men like this young Marine, stop and let the media parasites cover there own security.

The photo is typical of those absolutely no morals.

ChrissyK116 kirjoitti:

For the sake of humanity, I am utterly appalled by this photo. As an American I am outraged. As a member of a military family I am disgusted. My cousin was a Marine and was killed in a helicopter crash in Iraq in 2005. If someone published a photo of him in those moments, allowing people around the world to gawk at him and satisfy their twisted interest in pain and death, I would feel violated beyond expression. A streak of evil, unfeeling perverseness clearly pervades the AP, from the journalist who took this photo to the head of the organization. Shame on them! This brave young man deserves DIGNITY in death and RESPECT for his sacrifice. Anything less is an abomination that should haunt these immoral, unpatriotic journalists for the rest of their lives.

Civilian kirjoitti:

For commenters: So, it's ok to photograph and show pictures of dead civilians (and preferably Afghan civilians) as the press and even the US Army itself tend to do but not dying US marine? Come on, that's just cold and, well, utterly stupid.

Arthur kirjoitti:

A brave move from AP to publish the photo, finally someone show's what the war is really like out there. I find that it is these agencies' duty to show us what is real, and it is a shame that people have such big difficulties to handle this sudden burst of reality that they find it their duty to slander the people who document the hard nature of the situation. Ms. Jacobson did her job, and did it well. It is unpatriotic to try to prevent AP from publishing the picture, not to publish the picture. We can all look back in history to those times and countries where heads of states decided what can be published and what not. I like to get my news and photos from independent providers, not the government agencies. If you can't take it, read the funny papers, they have pictures too.

janne kirjoitti:

I understand how difficult it has to be for the family of this young soldier. It has to be devastating to read news about the reality going on at war when it is your family member.

However I realise press has to be on the scene. Otherwise general public can not know what is happening in war after political decisions to go to war and understand the consequences of war.

Rather than blaming the journalist to be cold and bad when releasing information about loses people should think is going to the war really the right decision when there are these consequences.

What is seems is when press releases information to general public about loses to americans it is not ok but when showing victory and dying foreigns like afghans it is ok. This is just how it seems to me.