God Bless the First Amendment, and newspapers exercising it. I think all Americans should experience in some way the trials of fellow Americans in harm's way. It's goddamn patriotic to see and react to this as a nation, and if this awfulness happens in in our country, it is our problem, not someone else's, and we should deal with it head on.
Again I say -- God Bless the First Amendment.
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Originally Posted by SiNai
The NY Times is just trying to sell its papers, and people want drama, so the picture is on the front page. Easy as that..
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I think that if thousands of people died in this disaster, the newspaper is doing much more than just selling papers by publishing that photo. I feel sorry for anyone who feels nothing but cynicism seeing that picture. It means a lot to me that I know of these things happening in my country. It's amazing that hundreds of corpses are intermingled with the suffering masses in New Orleans. It's very easy to be casual and flip about it here on a message board. but I think my life would be changed being there in New Orleans this week.