'We Cannot Sanitize War When It Comes To Targeting Civilians' Says NYT Photojournalist

[L. Coyote]

After capturing the final moment of a Ukrainian family trying to flee, Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times photojournalist Lynsey Addario discusses the importance of covering the loss of civilian life.

[Skittles]

1. in my mind

those iconic war photos from decades ago still remain

as they should

[Mr. Evil]

2. One thing that galls me is that,

when a missile hit across the street from where some journalists were sheltering one of them immediately said "shit" about 4 times. They initially showed the video with full audio during the immediate aftermath which killed 8. Then upon showing the repeats of this attack they bleeped out the multiple iterations of "shit" from the journalist while continuing to show the freshly killed bloody corpses, courtesy of madman psychopath, Vladamir Putin.

I know if I had been there I'd have yelled shit, fuck and a whole host of other slang oratory expressing my shock at the moment. What I don't get is how can hearing the word 'shit' be more traumatizing than seeing senselessly killed dead bodies? Everyone from the age of 10 and up uses or hears that word at least 5 times a day. If that's not trying to sanitize war I don't know what is. What, gotta clean up the language during family let's-watch-some-war time?

Sheesh!

[L. Coyote]

3. The war crimes are being documented like never before.

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[dalton99a]

4. +1

[PortTack]

5. Painful as these images are...we should NEVER EVER sanitize war, or look the other way!