The Violence of the Media

Every correspondent, every photographer has argued with his or her editors about how much the public can take. The violence we get to see on the page is in some way sanatized. It's an abstraction of what it actually looks like when somebody is literally blown to pieces by a mortar shell. Because we don't get those images, those images don't make their way through to the public conscione,. In a strange way, perpetuate the nation of that violet.