32 months, 2,000 deaths: MSM's First Published U.S. Fatality Of The War?

[elehhhhna]

Nov 09, 2005
MSM's First Published U.S. Fatality Of The War?



In the course of commenting yesterday on the use of military photos to accompany U.S. press accounts of the Iraq war (Pentagon Pictures, Tall Afar Tales - link), I mentioned how the NYT was one of the few news entities with photographers in Husayba covering the large scale U.S. offensive near the Syrian border.

What I seemed to skip over at the time, however -- until alerted by an astute BAG reader -- was the content of Monday's NYT image, which depicted a Marine killed in an ambush. I can't be certain, but I'm assuming that this photo -- thirty-two months and 2,000+ American deaths into the campaign -- is possibly the first published image of a U.S. military fatality to appear in the MSM.

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[Cool Blue Reason]

1. I think it's worth mentioning

that Jon Corzine now has the power to appoint an anti-war Democrat to the Senate, versus a party insider we're not so sure about. We need all we can get.

[newyawker99]

2. Hi Cool Blue Reason!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[WilliamPitt]

3. It depends on how you define MSM

The AP photo wire has carried dozens of these photos. We've run them on truthout.