The New York Times, the paper of record, is shocked, just shocked. They just discovered that the US military has been censoring war photography and un”embedding” journalists who do not follow their guidelines.

Picturing Casualties – The New York Times

Chris Hondros of Getty Images was with an army unit in Tal Afar on January 18, 2005, when its soldiers killed the parents of this blood-spattered girl at a checkpoint

It is, to them, a “complex matter”:

It is a complex issue, with competing claims often difficult to weigh in an age of instant communication around the globe via the Internet, in which such images can add to the immediate grief of families and the anger of comrades still in the field.

You might find that confusing, but that’s only because you did not know that newspapers are in the business of “weigh[ing] competing claims”, not reporting facts.

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