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[novapsyche]

FEMA Blocks Photos of New Orleans Dead

Katrina Timeline -- as in poetry, it's all about the juxtaposition

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[aiela.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how I feel about this one. Obviously, blocking the photos of the flag-draped coffins was very much about PR. But photos of corpses always makes me a little leery because I think about the family and loved ones of the unaccounted for dead, and thinking that a picture of my loved ones body showing up on the news before I even knew they were dead would make me unhappy.

And yeah, a lot of these bodies have been in the water so long they wouldn't be recognizable, but it's still not something I'm incredibly comfortable having the media cover. There's been plenty of shots of the trucks hauling the bodies and the building where they're being taken for identification, and I think at this point, that's plenty.