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Blame the networks for the now-lifted ban on showing military caskets.
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The Media’s Coffin Politics
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The City Journal:
Blame the networks for the now-lifted ban on showing military caskets.
by Paul Beston
After a review ordered by defense secretary Robert Gates, the Pentagon has lifted an 18-year-old policy banning the media from photographing caskets of slain servicemen and servicewomen on their return home, most often to Dover Air Force Base. Overturning the ban had been a goal of President George W. Bush’s critics, who argued that preventing media coverage sanitized the costs of war in Iraq and allowed Americans to ...
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