| I'm for it, the news needs to be reported, even more so in the US, as it is our military engaged in combat. (same goes for other allied nations)
BUT! It needs to be presented with context to what you just watched. For instance, merely reeling the video of a US marine shooting a guy on the ground and then reporting "a US marine shot a wounded Iraqi"
Well no, that isn't enough information for someone to make an accurate account of what they just viewed. The news needs to report everything they can. This includes not only the questionable things, the harsh face of war, but also the tender, reconstruction and civil affairs part.
The media needs to play a balancing act. Never purposely objectable like the Vietnam war, nor through "rose colored glasses".
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