Intellectual Property Law

Pentagon OKs Photos of Dead Soldiers' Coffins

By Ryan Singel, Kevin Poulsen, Sarah Lai Stirland, Kim Zetter, and David Kravets

The Pentagon said Thursday it was easing the ban on photographing flag-draped coffins of dead soldiers arriving home from the battlefield.

The 18-year-old ban of taking photos of coffins returning to the United States was designed to protect the privacy of grieving families. But it also censored and sanitized a byproduct of war.

Dead bodies are already littering television, the media and the internet. Do we need to see more?

What do you think?

Photo: blmurch via Flickr

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Full post as published by Threat Level on February 26, 2009 (boomark / email).