War: "...the total failure of the human spirit."

resolution for 2006: remember that media "reality" often isn't...

American television . . . continues to present war as a bloodless sandpit in which the horrors of conflict — the mutilated bodies of the victims of aerial bombing, torn apart in the desert by wild dogs — are kept off the screen. Editors in New York and London make sure that viewers' "sensitivities" don't suffer, that we don't indulge in the "pornography" of death (which is exactly what war is) or "dishonor" the dead whom we have just killed.

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Back in the old days, we used to believe — did we not? — that journalists should "tell it how it is."

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[Let's] express the reality of war by showing that it represents not, primarily, victory or defeat, but the total failure of the human spirit.

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