AP Photographer, Julie Jacobson shows no moral decency.
A photo of Lance Cpl. Joshua M. Bernard of New Portland, Maine, who was struck by a rocket-propelled grenade in a Taliban ambush Aug. 14 in Helmand province of southern Afghanistan, was distributed by the Associated Press.
Associated Press says photo of Lance Cpl. Joshua Bernard shows realities of war
Ms Jacobson wanted people see the 'realities' of war. She not only photographs his death she describes explicitly how he was injured and his last moments for his parents and family to read
Jacobson, in a journal she kept, recalled Bernard's ordeal as she lay in the dirt while Marines tried to save their comrade with bullets overhead.<...>
"To ignore a moment like that simply ... would have been wrong. I was recording his impending death, just as I had recorded his life moments before walking the point in the bazaar," she said. "Death is a part of life and most certainly a part of war. Isn't that why we're here? To document for now and for history the events of this war?"Now, how about the 'realities' of Joshua's parents?
A military mother of an injured soldier emails: "No parent should ever be subjected to the cruelty of the photo, that may not have been her intent, but that (to me) was the effect. Isn't it bad enough that this young man is dead? Wasn't it enough that those parents had to answer the door?" Apparently not, Ms Jacobson, ignoring the wishes of the family, seems to think they need to know the gory details and have photo evidence.
I can't imagine anyone who would stoop so low.