Crumpled

I just read an article from the Washington Post about the emergence of new photos from Abu Ghraib. The article is moving and strange.

You can sense discomfort in the media. It feels like they just got a job they don't want to do.

It's been easy and nessesary for the media to point out ways that the government has mishandled all the things that they've mishadled lately. It's probably even been fun, and they've had to push mighty hard to get the point across to the public.

Now there's this. Horrible images, that will probably disturb almost everybody with very little effort, along with the realization that no good can really come of this. And yet they have a responsibility to report on it. Nobody is going to love them for it, but they are doing what they should.

Here's the article I mentioned. But I don't blame you if you wanna stick to NPR. No pictures on the radio.