From the Frontline: August 2008 Archives
Anna Politkovskaya remembered
[video:google:-1006358898865632661&ei] Investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya would have celebrated her 50th birthday today had she not been gunned down in Moscow in October 2006. Russian human rights groups intend to gather in central Moscow today to remember her, "On August 30, on the day of Anna Politkovskaya's birthday, we want to...more
Blogging from the Middle East
Jaron Gilinsky, a Jerusalem-based video journalist and editor Falafel TV, guests on Mark Glaser's MediaShift blog this week. He discusses how blogs are helping humanize conflict in the Middle East, If you can find the good blogs, you will be exposed to a very real slice of Middle Eastern reality...more
Canadian diary from Kandahar
Canadian journalist Graham Thomson spent six weeks during the summer embedded with the members of Roto 5 - or Canada's fifth rotation - in Afghanistan. He stayed mostly in Kandahar and surrounding districts of districts of Zhari and Panjwaii. Canwest news publishes his diary today....more
The Hurt Locker
The Hurt Locker, a film about a US bomb disposal team, premieres in Venice this coming week. War correspondent Mark Boal wrote the script having been embedded with a bomb disposal team in Iraq in 2004. He talked to The Independent about the film, "These men do this every day....more
How to work in Somalia
Kabir Dhanji is a Kenya-born freelance photojournalist. He's worked in Somalia, Sudan, Uganda and Congo. He talks with Bundaberg News Mail about the particular dangers and precautions needed when working as a journalist in Somalia, "Somalia is quite unique in its dangers," he said. "You have to be particularly well-versed...more
Republican convention censorship?
As American eyes are focussed on the Democratic Convention, Art Hughes, of the Minnesota Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists, points to a number of worrying incidents involving the seizure of cameras and video equipment in the run up to the Republican National Convention that begins on Monday,...more
Somalia kidnap: "Things are moving positively"
Leonard Vincent, head of the Africa desk for Reporters Without Borders, talks to Canwest News Service about the plight of journalists Amanda Lindhout and Nigel Brennan who were kidnapped in Somalia earlier this week, "Things are moving positively," said Vincent. "It is a crucial moment and it would be very...more
Scooter ride too dangerous for war reporter
Lyse Doucet hits the headlines again today. The BBC, terrified the frontline war reporter would hurt herself, refused to allow her to ride a Vespa PX125 for a radio show on EU pollution policy. Simply too dangerous, "She's been to the most dangerous war zones yet some twit with a...more
Doing journalism in Lebanon
Menassat has the low down on the difficulties working in Hezbollah-controlled territory in Lebanon. Detentions and iterrogation of foreign journalists is on the rise. Haji Wafa of Hezbollah's press office tries to explain, David Hury, a French journalist, was detained on August 12, taken to different locations and questioned for...more
Dancing more dangerous than war reporting
John Sergeant, the former political editor of ITN, says he has suffered more injuries preparing for the next series of the TV show Strictly Come Dancing than he ever did as a war correspondent for the BBC, "I've injured both my left and right foot - more injuries than...more
A look back at South Ossetia
Global Voices point us to Live Journal user photomans with photographs from Tskhinvali and a refugee camp in Vladikavkaz. They're from mid-August, but have not been circulated throughout western media as far as I can tell. There are the, by now, familiar appeals from journalists who know no other...more
Missing the humanity of the Taliban
Lyse Doucet, BBC World News reporter, a good friend of the Frontline Club, old Afghan hand and a regular at club events, spoke about reporting from Afghanistan in Edinburgh recently. She called for more of a focus on the humanity of the Afghan people in media coverage of Afghanistan, 'What's...more
Dexter Filkins on reporting from Iraq
Dexter Filkins talks to readers of the New York Times about working as a war correspondent in Iraq. It's a lengthy Q&A, but it's worth a look for his take on working in a war zone, Q: What would be your advice for young journalists who want to cover...more
The forgotten victims in Somalia
By now the whole newspaper reading world has heard of the Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout who was kidnapped in Somalia earlier this week. Some of the world is also aware that Australian snapper Nigel Brennan was also kidnapped at the same time. Google search on ""Amanda Lindhout" Somalia" and you...more
Reporting - a danger to Kurdish journalists
Reuters report on the dangers faced by Kurdish journalists working in the enclave in northern Iraq. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists about 60 Kurdish journalists "were killed, threatened, attacked, or taken to court in the first half of 2008" "In Kurdistan there is no freedom for journalists....more
CIA recruits at journalism convention
Washington Post journalist Joe Davidson reports from a media recruitment fair in Chicago. He's a little incredulous at what he finds at "a nondescript stall... at booth number 1709", The CIA had set up shop, wedged between recruiters for WNYC, the Portland Oregonian and the New Orleans Times-Picayune, at the...more
UN condemns murder of Nigerian journalist
Paul Abayomi Ogundeji, a reporter with the Nigerian newspaper ThisDay, was shot and killed in the Nigerian capital Lagos on 17 August. His killer or killers have still not been found. Simon Kolawole a colleague of Ogundeji, bemoaned the state of the justice system in such killings, Those of us...more
Freelancing on the frontline
[video:youtube:WGTKFqcyfk0] Vaughan Smith, Frontline Club founder, talks to Press TV Iran about the dangers of freelancing on the frontline in the light of the recent kidnapping of Amanda Lindhout, Nigel Brennan, their Somali driver and two Somali guards. Vaughan makes the point that most journalists who are kidnapped or killed...more
War reporters with guns
There's something a bit odd about praising a war reporter who carries a gun. In an article titled "War correspondent deserves Pulitzer Prize" in The Montgomery Advertiser, Alvin Benn talks about his colleague veteran war reporter Joe Galloway, Speaking to pilots at Maxwell Air Force Base last week, [Joe] praised...more
Leroy Sievers dies age 53
Leroy Sievers, who worked as an embedded journalist in Iraq with Ted Koppel, has died of colon cancer age 53. Sievers covered a lot of war in his time; including Desert Storm, Rwanda, Somalia, Kosovo, El Salvador and Nicaragua. He worked for ABC News and CBS, Sievers began writing about...more
Tobi Cohen recalls Kandahar IED incident
Tobi Cohen, a journalist with The Canadian Press, describes the IED incident she was involved in with Scott Deveau from the National Post in Kandahar this morning, With little else to do on the agonizingly slow journey, we chatted. Two soldiers got out of the vehicle to inspect the road...more
Embedded reporter shaken up in Kandahar IED
Scott Deveau, a journalist with Canwest News Service and the National Post, was travelling in the back of an armoured vehicle with a Canadian Press reporter Tobi Cohen and a group of soldiers when their vehicle struck an improvised explosive device (IED) in Kandahar this morning, "The strike hit about...more
Wilf Mbanga on journalism in Zimbabwe
Wilf Mbanga, founder and publisher of The Zimbabwean, talks in The Guardian today about how Mugabe's regime deal with independent journalists. And how they have started threatening their children. Wilf knows all too well the threats journalists face in Zimbabwe. A 14 tonne truck carrying 60,000 copies of his newspaper...more
Jill Carroll kidnapper arrested
The alleged mastermind behind the kidnapping in Baghdad of American journalist Jill Carroll in 2006 has been arrested, says Deborah Haynes in Baghdad for The Times today. Salim Abdallah Ashur al-Shujayri, also know as Abu Uthman was captured on August 11 and is also thought to have been involved in...more
Foreign journalists abducted in Somalia
Frontline Club on Dipity. Bloomberg is reporting that two foreign journalists are among five people who were kidnapped in Somalia today, The two journalists, an Australian man and Canadian woman, had been staying at the Shamo Hotel and were scheduled to visit a refugee camp at Elasha, 17 kilometers (10...more
Students uncover Daniel Pearl suspects
[video:youtube:9yKsHWZyijA] According to MSNBC a group of Georgetown University students led by a colleague of Daniel Pearl have managed to succeed where the FBI failed. They claim to have discovered the real identities of 15 of the 19 suspects in the killing of Daniel Pearl who are still at large....more
McCain vs. Obama
No, this blog is not getting political... I just ran across something on the Reuters blog about media coverage of the rival candidates for the US presidency. The post concentrates on the seeming disparity between the candidates regards their media coverage, specifically their respective US TV coverage and even the...more
Daniel Pearl finalists announced
The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists announced the finalists for the first "Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding International Investigative Reporting" today. Five judges selected finalists from a rosta of "86 entries from 24 countries, involving reporting in more than 60 countries during 2006 and 2007" The finalists are, Michael Kranish,...more
Video blogger arrested in Beijing
Friend of Frontline, Brian Conley has been arrested in Beijing. Brian is the brains behind the Alive in Baghdad blog and has helped us promote the Frontline Club live video channel. In an email his wife Eowyn tells us Brian was among 6 people recently arrested in Beijing, China while...more
Blood Trail - the trailer
[video:youtube:FOeHVsuGzx8] Richard Parry and Vaughan Smith, both original Frontline TV Agency men and Vaughan is of course the founder of the Frontline Club, give us a sneak preview of the trailer to their film Blood Trail. The film was 15 years in the making and follows the career of war...more
Thai Rath reporter Charlee Boonsawat killed
Two bombs exploded in the the southern Thai town of Sungai Kolok today. Charlee Boonsawat, a reporter on the Thai Rath newspaper, was among the dead. The first bomb, which caused minimal damage, is believed to have been planted on a motorcycle. The second bomb exploded as onlookers, police and...more
John Hemming hitches a Humvee to Kandahar
Jon Hemming Reuters chief correspondent in Afghanistan, heads to Kandahar with a convoy of U.S. troops, Normally as a reporter driving around Kabul, I take great care to avoid being anywhere near a foreign military convoy as they are the Taliban's favorite target. But when you're inside a Humvee,...more
Israeli investigation into the beating of Mohammed Omer
Mohammed Omer, winner of the 2008 Martha Gellhorn prize for journalism was beaten by Israeli security guards upon his return home to Gaza in June. We blogged about it at the time. Stuart Littlewood, author of Radio Free Palestine, writes in The People's Voice that he has received an explanation...more
Bruce Wallace becomes LA Times Foreign editor
The LA Times blog reports that Bruce Wallace, Tokyo bureau chief for the Los Angeles paper, is to head the foreign desk with immediate effect, Bruce was based in Japan, but during the last four years he has been a kinetic firefighter, parachuting from hotspot to hotspot. He made...more
Back to Vietnam
Ruth Ann Burns became the youngest accredited Vietnam war correspondent when she stepped off a plane to get her papers stamped in Saigon aged just 20 years old. Her husband Carl Burns was an Army helicopter pilot. The two of them chronicle their war stories, together with submissions from other...more
Yuri Kozyrev in South Ossetia
TIME photographer Yuri Kozyrev rides with Russian troops through Georgia and the South Ossetian capital of Tskhinvali. Meanwhile, Leli Blagonravova, a Georgian photojournalist, who was in Gori when the Russians first attacked on August 8-9 delivers a personal account on France 24's Observers site. The Frontline Club's very own...more
Alexander Klimchuk laid to rest
[video:youtube:7-o8qgZY1MQ] Alexander Klimchuk was killed in Tskhinvali, the capital of the embattled region of South Ossetia nearly two weeks ago. Russian Today reports from his funeral in the video above. He was found dead in the streets of the South Ossetian capital along with another Georgian reporter, Grigol Chikhladze. Alexander...more
Three killed, dozens injured and arrested
Reporters Without Borders catalogues the deaths and injuries to journalists in Georgia since the war began less than two weeks ago. Turkish cameraman Levent Öztürk working for the NTV station was severely injured in attack which he and his colleagues caught on video, "When I was hit, my eye went...more
Busted in Beijing
Kevin German gets his collar felt while shooting the arrest of a "scalper" in Beijing. Scalpers sell tickets for inflated prices to punters wanting a seat at the Olympics, Once the man was on the ground the other officer lunged at me again. He pushed me and hit me...more
Telegraph closes Berlin bureau
The Telegraph will close its Berlin bureau leaving the paper with just one foreign news desk in Europe reports The Guardian. A stringer is expected to replace Berlin correspondent Harry de Quettville who will return to London to work int he features department. The move leaves just Henry Samuel in...more
Crossing the frontline
[video:youtube:wmGl5FACJ2o] This dramatic footage purports to show journalists crossing the frontline in Georgia because... well, it doesn't look as if there is anywhere else to go....more
No longer safe
Daniel Lak from CBC News talks about the changing status of journalists in conflict zones. No longer just bystanders, as Michael Holmes refelected in the previous post, but targets, "In the '60s and '70s, reporters were somehow regarded by all sides as tellers of the story, people who got out...more
Michael Holmes on shooting journalists
CNN correspondent Michael Holmes reflects on a week in which an alarming number of journalists have been either killed, injured and/or targetted in Georgia. Michael wasn't stuck in a car in Georgia like the Turkish reporters he empathises with, but he's experienced a imilar situation in Iraq, On January 27,...more
Dealing with psychological shrapnel
Katie Adie is interviewed in The Times this weekend and answers the age old question, War correspondents are often portrayed as psychologically damaged men who’ve looked into the heart of darkness and found sanctuary in booze. How does a woman who has walked through the human abattoir of history, from...more
How things used to be
[video:youtube:9aF_r_01ekY] In this video blog, NBC's Mike Taibbi talks to John Rich, the only war correspondent to cover the entire Korean War. link...more
Reporters under fire
[video:youtube:So07TMHRJ7E] CNN reports on the recent spate of journalist shootings and deaths in South Ossetia and Georgia....more
In the 21st century...
Two great clips via Mohamed Nanabhay, Head of New Media at the AlJazeera Network. All about Georgia, Iraq, politics, the west and 'stuff'... say no more. Just go over and take a peek....more
FOX news reporters shot at in Gori
[video:youtube:UQXUW_ks8ls] FOX News reporter Steve Harrigan says he and a group of journalists were shot at in the Georgian town of Gori by "irregular, undisciplined, angry" Georgian forces with pistols. However, this appears to have happened at the same location we previously posted and both EuroNews and The Guardian reported...more
Impossible to verify 2,000 dead
From the BBC Editors blog Jon Williams, BBC World News Editor, offers an interesting perspective on how easy it is for big media to get access to powerful people who want a soapbox, but how difficult it is to verify basic facts, For the BBC to have access to someone...more
The PR tour of South Ossetia
[video:youtube:FGAUhEFvbfo] There's something quite bizarre about watching a truck load of journalists being ferried around a warzone by the people who are in large part responsible for the destruction. What can we possibly learn from such tightly controlled tours? Just how do the journalists ferret through debris to find a...more
Blood Trail to Toronto Film Festival 2008
Blood Trail is the result of fifteen years of filming one man in war zones across the world. It's been a labour of love for Frontline Club founder Vaughan Smith and original Frontline TV agency cameraman Richard Parry since they first met wannabe photographer Robert King in Bosnia in...more
Arkady Babchenko in Georgia
Arkady Babchenko's photographs of the war in Georgia and South Ossetia are more graphic than you'll find in the British press. Arkady is an ex-Russian soldier turned author who served in Chechnya. He works as a journalist with Novaya Gazeta - the same newspaper that Anna Politkovskaya wrote for...more
Cluster bombs killed Stan Storimans
Bombies, originally uploaded by myriadity. Human Rights Watch say the attack on Gori that killed at least eight civilians, including Dutch journalist Stan Storimans, and injured dozens involved the use of cluster bombs, “Cluster bombs are indiscriminate killers that most nations have agreed to outlaw,†said Marc Garlasco, senior...more
Czech politician puts war reporting boots back on
JaromÃr Å tětina is a Czech senator with the Green Party. At the outbreak of war in Georgia he made his excuses and headed to the border. This is a politician with a difference. An ex-war reporter who has covered conflict in Europe, Asia and Africa and the Caucasus. "I...more
Sean Smith in Georgia
Frontline Club regular and World Press photographer of the year Sean Smith is in Georgia for The Guardian. Here are the latest snaps....more
Another Georgian journalist shot
Euronews captures what it is says is a Russian military official shooting a female Georgian journalist in the arm in or near the Georgian town of Gori. This appears to be a seperate incident from the one mentioned in the previous post where another female Georgian journalist was shot...more
Footage of Georgian TV journalist fired upon during report
[video:youtube:-ETQpCsvrIY] A Georgian TV journalist is apparently fired upon by a Russian sniper and injured while delivering a piece to camera. Fortunately, she's soon patched up and back on with the job. UPDATE: I see Reuters have now picked up on the video: A correspondent working for Georgian state television...more
Israeli soldiers off the hook over Fadel Shana killing
David Schlesinger talks about his disappointment in the report this week from Israel's senior military lawyer stating that Israeli forces will not face legal action following the killing of Reuters man Fadel Shana, I’ve written before that a camera is not a weapon, that a journalist is not a combatant,...more
Footage of Dutch cameraman killed in Gori
[video:youtube:B-epO3SDVYg] Disturbing footage of what appears to be the aftermath of an attack on the centre of the Georgian town of Gori. It's difficult to ascertain the veracity of the footage, although this appears to be the attack that killed the Dutch cameraman Stan Storimans during the Russian bombardment of...more
Footage of Turkish journalists under attack in Gori
[video:youtube:mp6hB5RvYoM] Footage has surfaced of NTV journalists coming under fire in Gori, the Georgian town 30km from South Ossetia. It aired on the Turkish NTV channel. I think it is from the attack first reported on Sunday, Russian NTV producer Peter Gassiyev was injured in an attack by unidentified forces...more
Tributes to Alexander Klimchuk
Tributes to Alexander Klimchuk, the photographer who owned Caucasus Press Images and was killed in the South Ossetian capital Tskhinvali earlier this week, are pouring in to the Lightstalkers forum. Mark Pinder, a freelance photographer from North Shields, Tyne and Wear talked to Amateur Photographer about his memories of the...more
Temuri Kiguradze whereabouts unknown
22 year old war reporter Winston Featherly-Bean, who was shot in North Ossetia on Sunday, has been transfered to an intensive care unit in a Moscow hospital according to Anchorage Daily News, "We've learned that Winston was suddenly operated on again today," [Winston's brother, Peter Featherly-Bean] wrote in an e-mail...more
The Fixer gets Tribeca funding
The Fixer, a film by Ian Olds, is one of seven documentary film projects to recieve funding from the Tribeca Film Institute's inaugural Gucci Tribeca Documentary Finishing Fund. Each project will receive $80,000 to help towards post production costs. The Fixer focuses on the relationship between Afghan translator, Ajmal Naqshbandi,...more
Butterfly mind
Vue Weekly reviews Patrick Brown's latest tome, a memoir called Butterfly Mind. Brown worked as a foreign correspondent for CBC for 30 years and he admits he often didn't know an awful lot about the places he was parachuted into and expected to become an overnight expert, “Although my tone...more
Getting the story out of South Ossetia
The Press Gazette does a good job of telling us how the British press got the story out of South Ossetia at the same time most of them were heavily focussed on what was going on in Beijing. Listed in among the ranks of foreign correspondents who were first on...more
Remembering Alexander Klimchuk
Matthew Collin, a foreign correspondent in the Caucasus region, is heading out of Tbilisi. He takes time out in today's Guardian to reflect upon his adopted home and the death of his friend, the journalist Alexander Klimchuk, Last autumn, Klimchuk and I worked together in South Ossetia, covering a government-sponsored...more
The glamorous life of a foreign correspondent
Bed sharing, fried ants, yak's milk and dodged bullets... Carol J. Williams writes in the Los Angeles Times about her time as a foreign correspondent. It isn't always this grim, is it? Only weeks into the Bosnian war that began in 1992, shellfire had blasted out the windows at...more
Into South Ossetia with Yuri Kozyrev
TIME photographer Yuri Kozyrev travels with Russian units through South Ossetia. Click the image above to see a photgallery of recent images....more
Analysing Ossetia
Sean's Russia blog offers a very interesting analysis of the western media's interpretation of the situation in South Ossetia and Georgia, Every small Russian action is instantly viewed as part of a larger design. The latest evidence that sparked fears of an assault on Tbilisi? A Russian convoy that was...more
Aye Aye Win wins Courage in journalism award 2008
The International Women's Media Foundation award Burmese journalist Aye Aye Win with the Courage in Journalism award for 2008. The 54 year old AP journalist wins the award for her coverage of the demonstrations in September 2007, In a telephone interview with The Irrawaddy on Wednesday, Aye Aye Win said...more
John Ray detained in China
[video:youtube:bdG0tpmKgbw] John Ray, ITV's China correspondent, was covering a Free Tibet protest in Beijing's main Olympic zone when he was detained by police earlier today. He managed to use his telephone from the back of the police van before the line went dead, "I have been roughed up. They dragged...more
John Cooley dies
From Democracy Now, The longtime foreign correspondent John Cooley has died. He covered the Middle East for more than fifty years, mostly at the Christian Science Monitor. He was the author of eight books, including Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism. link...more
Russian bombs kill journalist in Gori
From AP, A Dutch television journalist was killed overnight when Russian warplanes bombed the central Georgian city of Gori. The television news station RTL reported on its Web site that its cameraman Stan Storimans, 39, was killed and correspondent Jeroen Akkermans was wounded in the leg in the attack. RTL...more
Live from Kandahar... soon
[video:youtube:VOiLs95QpV8] Frontline blogger Alex made his way down to Kandahar last week - you can see a bit of his recent journey through Arghandab district in the short clip above. He'll be based in the southern province for the next eight or nine months. Well worth keeping an eye on...more
Journalists killed in South Ossetia
A Moscow radio station reports two journalists have been killed in Tskhinvali, the capital of the embattled region of South Ossetia. The International Herald Tribune has more, The station, Ekho Moskvy, cited a Russian Newsweek magazine correspondent Orkhan Dzhemal as saying that both went into the separatist Georgian province from...more
How do you track Russian language news from South Ossetia without reading Russian?
Here's one way to try and follow the South Ossetia story in Russian if you can't read Russian. I touch on these methods when I teach the Track Breaking News Online courses each month in London. We'll do all this by using a combination of online translation tools and RSS...more
Monitoring South Ossetia
Veronica Khokhlova at Global Voices does a good job rounding up and translating the word from the streets of Georgia including this comment from Russian journalist Mikhail Romanov in a hotel basement in Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, The city is under heavy howitzer and mortar fire. An endless...more
Russian troops attack South Ossetia
[video:youtube:E4AD6mOZm9I] Russian troops head in the direction of Tskhinvali, the capital of Georgia's separatist South Ossetia region. This follows "a massive attack" by Georgian troops to regain control of breakaway region where officials said at least 15 people were killed and an unspecified number of people wounded. A convoy of...more
Top tips for reporting from Sudan
Heading to Sudan? Ever wondered what to look out for? Rob has the lowdown with his top tips for working in the African nation. I particularly liked number five, Don’t bear an uncanny resemblance to the previous BBC stringer who got kicked out. link...more
Beijing Press pack detained
The Huffington Post reports that a plane carrying the White House press pack to Beijing was detained for three hours due to "logistical problems" Delays on landing have happened before, but no one on the plane was able to recall one this long. The plane landed at 2:10 a.m. local...more
Peter Lloyd could face 10 months
Peter Lloyd, the ABC journalist arrested in Singapore last month, could face 10 months in prison for possession of drugs. A Singaporean man who said he bought drugs from Lloyd has already been jailed for 10 months. The New Delhi-based foreign correspondent still faces a number of related charges, Lloyd,...more
Spinning the war in Iraq?
"Back to Iraq" is a trip organised Vets for Freedom (VFF), an American pro-war group. A band of ex-servicemen with some journalism experience are heading "Back to Iraq" to areas in which they served to report on what they find. But is it journalism? Alex Koppelman on Salon.com has more,...more
8-8-88 remembered
The photojournalism blog Verve Photo features the work of Brian Sokol today. The Nepal-based American snapper has covered a range of stories from "armed conflict in the Himalayas to the international trafficking of human organs". The photo above is from the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis in Burma. Meanwhile, writing...more
A dummies guide to war reporting
John Simpson, BBC World Affairs Editor, is set to star in a new BBC2 TV series called Three Dogs. The veteran foreign correspondent will teach the two other dogs, explorers extraordinaire Sir Ranulph Fiennes and Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, how to do the job of journalism in a war zone. In...more
Tourism not terrorism
Our man Kim Sengupta reports that the Iraqi government has come up with the winning slogan "tourism not terrorism" to try and attract visitors to the land of Babylon. Delegates from Basra have taken inspiration from the upsurge in tourism seen in Northern Ireland since the IRA ceasfire, Hamood...more
Muting the war
Fascinating reminder of the way American and western media report the wars in Iraq and Afghanstan on The Media Channel, Why do I think this image from Thursday’s NYT is so profound? It’s because the military has been so overwhelmingly effective in muting the war, and the war photographer,...more
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