April 21, 2007
Learning the lesson of Abu Ghraib
Posted by
Mark Kleiman
Don't let anyone take pictures. [See post below.]
I predict that all of the people who criticized the publication of the Abu Ghraib pictures on the grounds that the facts could have been conveyed with verbal descriptions and that publishing the photos was therefore needlessly inflammatory will ignore this story entirely. Since there aren't any pictures, it doesn't have any emotional punch, and therefore won't get to the level where people who don't want to pay attention to it have to pay attention anyway.
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