Katrina: FEMA to Reuters -- no photos of the dead

By at 11:22 am Wednesday, Sep 7

Here we go, down the memory hole. Snip from Reuters:
"We have requested that no photographs of the deceased be made by the media," a [FEMA] spokeswoman said in an e-mailed response to a Reuters inquiry.

The Bush administration also has prevented the news media from photographing flag-draped caskets of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq, which has sparked criticism that the government is trying to block images that put the war in a bad light.

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