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Not A Pretty Picture "I understand the criticisms about blood and gore," said Dallas Morning News photographer David Leeson. "I don't seek that. When I approach a body on the ground after a battle, I'm determined to give dignity to that person's life and photograph him with respect. But sometimes, as with my pictures of child victims, the greatest dignity and respect you can give them is to show the horror they have suffered, the absolutely gruesome horror." The Village Voice explores an interesting issue (sort-of related to the LA Times story we blogged the other day) about how the media seems to be going along with the government's wishes and straying away from depicting the horrors of the Iraq war. "Why does the government that ordered the war and hails it as an instrument of good then ask us to respect those who died in the cause by not describing and depicting how they died?" I think the writer makes a great point that pretty much sums things up, when stating that the photographs that accompany this piece are not gratuitously violent -- they are merely real. 
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