Administration Drops Ban on Katrina Body-Recovery Reporting
Well, this is good news.
So why ban reporters from reporting on body-recovery efforts in the first place?
Explanation 1:
To protect the dignity of the victims.
Explanation 2:
To protect the administration from criticism.
I'd like to think that the former explanation is the true one, but I'm just about done trying to give these people the benefit of the doubt. Their ban on photographing coffins coming back from Iraq was obviously politically motivated...a policy one might expect from some totalitarian hell-hole, but not from the U.S. If not for that policy, I'd not even consider the latter explanation here. But, sadly, I find myself regarding these two explinations as approximately equiprobable.
Well, this is good news.
So why ban reporters from reporting on body-recovery efforts in the first place?
Explanation 1:
To protect the dignity of the victims.
Explanation 2:
To protect the administration from criticism.
I'd like to think that the former explanation is the true one, but I'm just about done trying to give these people the benefit of the doubt. Their ban on photographing coffins coming back from Iraq was obviously politically motivated...a policy one might expect from some totalitarian hell-hole, but not from the U.S. If not for that policy, I'd not even consider the latter explanation here. But, sadly, I find myself regarding these two explinations as approximately equiprobable.
posted by Winston Smith at
12:01 PM
1 Comments:
Banning photography clearly is spin. The Administration is in the position of most rich folks--they can make a lot of things work their way. Brown, for example, can now just continue to do what he's been doing--presiding over the dismantling of FEMA. He can at the same time become the goat, even though Bush appointed him, because--shocking, simply shocking--his resume is not in order. Meanwhile, Halliburton and Bectel and the rest of the buds get the fat contracts to rebuild and special labor deals as well. The worst thing for Bush is photographs, because the electorate lives on pictures, not words. We're TV nation. Here's the picture they want to suppress most: Guardsmen shooting the pets that were left behind. --Beel
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